they may find persons & conversation more or less pleasing; At whatever table, they may meet with meats & drinks of better and worse taste, dishes better& worse dressed; In whatever climate they will find good and bad weather; Under whatever government, they may find good...
as much as possible. There were wishes at Randalls respecting Emma's destiny, but it was not desirable to have them suspected; and the quiet transition which Mr. Knightley soon afterwards made to `What does Weston think of the weather; shall we have rain?'...
education, attitude toward each other, (even toward ourselves,) than a morbid trouble about seems, and no trouble at all, or hardly any, about the sane, slow-growing perennial, real parts of character, books, friendship, marriage—humanity’s invisible foundations and hold together. ...
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Thy figurin' books might ha' tould thee better nor that, I should think, else thee mightst as well read the commin print, as Seth allays does." "Nay, Mother," said Adam, laughing, "the figures tell us a fine deal, and we couldn't go far without 'em, but they don't tell ...
Then various articles, as prayer-books, tea-pots, and cups, are placed before him, and he has to point out those used by himself in his previous life. If he does so without a mistake his claims are admitted, and he is conducted in triumph to the monastery. At the head of all the...
They even wrote books about the best ways of making blocks and trees and they bestowed upon the people of the Middle Ages a most welcome and unexpected inheritance.For without an endless variety of pulleys, the large sailing vessels of the fifteenth century could never have been handled, and ...
As they enteredNovember, the weather turned very cold. November /no'vɛmbɚ/ n. 十一月 3 The mountains around the school becameicygray and the lake likechilledsteel. Every morning the ground was covered infrost. icy /ˈaɪsi/ adj. 冰冷的 ...
So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know howto read books she would never have learned her letters at all. One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nineyears old, sheawakened2feeling very cross, an...