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William Blackwood and Sons, 1871 - 197 頁
 

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第 157 頁 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
第 149 頁 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me.' They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
第 158 頁 - They were intended to explain what is meant by the nature of man, when it is said that virtue consists in following, and vice in deviating from it; and by explaining to show that the assertion is true.
第 184 頁 - Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry, And in themselves seek virtue, and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God give none, Rather accuse him under usual names, Fortune and Fate, as one regardless quite Of mortal things.
第 46 頁 - Happy the man, in busy schemes unskilled, Who, living simply, like our sires of old, Tills the few acres, which his father tilled, Vexed by no thoughts of usury or gold ; The shrilling clarion ne'er his slumber mars, Nor quails he at the howl of angry seas ; He shuns the forum, with its wordy jars, Nor at a great man's door consents to freeze. The tender vine-shoots, budding into life, He with the stately...
第 156 頁 - Strain your wine and prove your wisdom ; life is short ; should hope be more ? In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away. Seize the present; trust to-morrow e'en as little as you may.
第 200 頁 - BURBIDGE. Domestic Floriculture, Window Gardening, and . Floral Decorations. Being practical directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants and Flowers as Domestic Ornaments.
第 200 頁 - MANUAL OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY: MathematiCA.L, PHYSICAL, AND POLITICAL ; on a new plan, embracing a complete development of the River Systems of the Globe. By the Rev. ALEXANDER MACKAY, LL.D., FRGS Revised to date of publication. Crown 8vo, pp. 688. 7s. 6d. This volume — the result of many years...

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