A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Díl 2C. Winter, 1927 |
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A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Svazek 2 Otto Jespersen Náhled není k dispozici. - 1936 |
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Strana 419 - There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber. She kept her hair short and crisp, and wore spectacles. She was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages for Miss Blimber. They must be dead — stone dead — and then Miss Blimber dug them up like a Ghoul.
Strana 256 - Tis, finally, the Man, who, lifted high, Conspicuous object in a Nation's eye, Or left unthought-of in obscurity, Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not, Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won...
Strana 441 - ... breeding. He has the misfortune to be of a very weak constitution, and consequently cannot accept of such cares...
Strana 260 - ... to mind the progressive steps of any of my compositions; and, since the interest of an analysis, or reconstruction, such as I have considered a desideratum, is quite independent of any real or fancied interest in the thing...
Strana 94 - The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
Strana 174 - For you don't often get the truth told you in print ; The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders ; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves...
Strana 352 - I beheld a similar perfection. There were the same luxurious smoothness of surface, the same scarcely perceptible tendency to the aquiline, the same harmoniously curved nostrils speaking the free spirit.
Strana 81 - Jeroms, compelled me to embrace the superior merits of celibacy, the institution of the monastic life, the use of the sign of the cross, of holy oil, and...
Strana 127 - On that best portion of a good man's life, — His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Strana 173 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then...