How it All Fits Together: A Novice's Introduction to the Game of LifeJ.M. Dent & Sons., Limited, 1920 - Всего страниц: 158 |
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... grow into an oak within whose boughs the birds of the air will find commodious shelter ; rather than the temper and outlook of the jobbing gardener ( " a practical man , sir ! " ) who brusquely points out that it can be turned into an ...
... grow into an oak within whose boughs the birds of the air will find commodious shelter ; rather than the temper and outlook of the jobbing gardener ( " a practical man , sir ! " ) who brusquely points out that it can be turned into an ...
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... growing wonder and delight and mystery . Or ( to turn it a better way ) our City of Man - the world of buying and selling , of banking and investing , of exporting and importing -is ( to the trained ear ) as one vast roll of never ...
... growing wonder and delight and mystery . Or ( to turn it a better way ) our City of Man - the world of buying and selling , of banking and investing , of exporting and importing -is ( to the trained ear ) as one vast roll of never ...
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... growing richer , though we had no money , and nothing to buy with it if we had money.1 1 I omit , as irrelevant for our immediate purpose , some considerations of far deeper significance than most of these : the mastery of the laws of ...
... growing richer , though we had no money , and nothing to buy with it if we had money.1 1 I omit , as irrelevant for our immediate purpose , some considerations of far deeper significance than most of these : the mastery of the laws of ...
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... growing vegetables in our own garden . Getting on well means , rather , learning to fit in well with other people at tasks that will satisfy the wants of yet other people of whose existence we have only hearsay knowledge . Only in this ...
... growing vegetables in our own garden . Getting on well means , rather , learning to fit in well with other people at tasks that will satisfy the wants of yet other people of whose existence we have only hearsay knowledge . Only in this ...
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... grow rich indeed . The world is my oyster ( says the humourist ) ; let me open it . The world is my harp ( says the business adventurer ) ; let me play upon it . The pioneer in the race for the right to cater for the satisfaction of the ...
... grow rich indeed . The world is my oyster ( says the humourist ) ; let me open it . The world is my harp ( says the business adventurer ) ; let me play upon it . The pioneer in the race for the right to cater for the satisfaction of the ...
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Стр. 133 - Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show, That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines arow, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day. So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea...
Стр. 65 - An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Стр. 23 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Стр. 110 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Стр. 110 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caesar ; so were you : We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
Стр. 66 - And everybody praised the Duke who this great fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" quoth little Peterkin. "Why that I cannot tell," said he, "but 'twas a famous victory.
Стр. 110 - If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark...
Стр. 13 - Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking 'over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho...
Стр. 95 - I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative!
Стр. 13 - For nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow spear'd by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.