Where Shall I Educate My Son?: A Manual for Parents of Moderate Means

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Houlston and Sons, 1884 - Počet stran: 104
 

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Strana 1 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Strana 81 - Long afterwards, he said that he had never called but one council of war, and that if he had taken the advice of that council the British would never have been masters of Bengal. But scarcely had the meeting broken up when he was himself again. He retired alone under the shade of some trees, and passed near an hour there in thought. He came back determined to put everything to the hazard, and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow.
Strana 81 - ... during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting; and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority. Long afterwards, he said that he had never called but one council of war, and that, if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal.
Strana 81 - THE MONKEY AND THE FISHERMEN A MONKEY was sitting up in a high tree, when, seeing some Fishermen laying their nets in a river, he watched what they were doing. The Men had no sooner set their nets, and retired a short distance to their dinner, than the Monkey came down from the tree, thinking that he would try his hand at the same sport. But in attempting to lay the nets he got so entangled in them, that being well nigh choked, he was forced to exclaim: "This serves me right; for what business had...
Strana 103 - Wenn ich manchmal dachte: wie wird es mit dir aufs Alter werden? wenn du zu Schanden gehauen bist? wenn du nichts haben wirst? wenn du wirst betteln gehen müssen? So dachte ich wieder: Nein, du wirst nicht betteln gehen; du wirst zum Major Tellheim gehen; der wird seinen letzten Pfennig mit dir theilen; der wird dich zu Tode füttern; bei dem wirst du als ein ehrlicher Kerl sterben können. V. V el I hti IN lindem ei Weinei« Hund ei»le!ft>. Und , Kamerad, das denkst du nicht noch? Werner. Nein,...
Strana 104 - There are four seasons in the year: spring, summer, autumn, and winter...
Strana 72 - Hoc etiam saevas paulatim mitigat iras, Hoc minuit luctus maestaque corda levat. Cuncta potest igitur tacito pede lapsa vetustas Praeterquam curas attenuare meas.
Strana 76 - I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me : therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Strana 81 - Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return. On this occasion, for the first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting ; and Olive declared his concurrence with the majority.

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