Little Classics, Volume 3Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1875 |
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... suppose the shutter open to its whole extent ) a robber might have taken a firm grasp upon the trellis - work . Letting go , then , his hold upon the rod , placing his feet securely against the wall , and springing boldly from it , he ...
... suppose the shutter open to its whole extent ) a robber might have taken a firm grasp upon the trellis - work . Letting go , then , his hold upon the rod , placing his feet securely against the wall , and springing boldly from it , he ...
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... suppose gold the motive of this outrage , we must also imagine the perpetrator so vacil- lating an idiot as to have abandoned his gold and his motive together . " Keeping now steadily in mind the points to which I have drawn your ...
... suppose gold the motive of this outrage , we must also imagine the perpetrator so vacil- lating an idiot as to have abandoned his gold and his motive together . " Keeping now steadily in mind the points to which I have drawn your ...
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... suppose , innocent of this atrocity , this advertisement , which I left last night , upon our return home , at the office of Le Monde ( a paper devoted to the shipping interest , and much sought by sailors ) , will bring him to our ...
... suppose , innocent of this atrocity , this advertisement , which I left last night , upon our return home , at the office of Le Monde ( a paper devoted to the shipping interest , and much sought by sailors ) , will bring him to our ...
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... suppose that I have been misled by some circumstance into which he will not take the trouble to inquire . But if I am right , a great point is gained . Cognizant although innocent of the murder , the Frenchman will naturally hesitate ...
... suppose that I have been misled by some circumstance into which he will not take the trouble to inquire . But if I am right , a great point is gained . Cognizant although innocent of the murder , the Frenchman will naturally hesitate ...
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... suppose you have called about the Ourang - Outang . Upon my word , I almost envy you the possession of him , - a remarkably fine , and no doubt a very valuable animal . How old do you suppose him to be ? " The sailor drew a long breath ...
... suppose you have called about the Ourang - Outang . Upon my word , I almost envy you the possession of him , - a remarkably fine , and no doubt a very valuable animal . How old do you suppose him to be ? " The sailor drew a long breath ...
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Page 11 - ... among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Page 182 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 200 - Before us lay an avenue, straight as an arrow, six hundred yards, perhaps, in length; and the umbrageous trees, which rose in a regular line from either side, meeting high overhead, gave to it the character of a cathedral aisle.
Page 13 - I could not help remarking and admiring (although from his rich ideality I had been prepared to expect it) a peculiar analytic ability in Dupin. He seemed, too, to take an eager delight in its exercise — if not exactly in its display — and did not hesitate to confess the pleasure thus derived.
Page 29 - To look at a star by glances— to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly— is to have the best appreciation of its lustre— a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it.
Page 174 - It would have been inhuman in our philosopher to have clouded, even with a doubt, the sunshine of this belief. His discourse, indeed, was very remote from metaphysical disquisition, or religious controversy.
Page 174 - Why should not the same thing be said of religion ? Trust me, I feel it in the same way, an energy, an inspiration, which I would not lose for all the blessings of sense or enjoyments of the world; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from God, adds the blessing of sentiment to that of sensation in every good thing I possess; and when calamities overtake me, and I have had my share, it confers a dignity on...
Page 177 - La Roche!" exclaimed he in reply. "Alas! it was she indeed!" The appearance of surprise and grief which his countenance assumed attracted the notice of the peasant with whom he talked. He came up closer to Mr. ; '• I perceive, sir, you were acquainted with Mademoiselle La Roche.
Page 8 - ... the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound.