Mirthfulness and Its Exciters; Or, Rational Laughter and Its Promoters

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Lee and Shepard, 1870 - 348 trang
 

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Trang 79 - Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine : and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
Trang 145 - he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney?
Trang 41 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Trang 338 - ... might not only be the most patient of butts and of listeners, might not only be always ready in fine weather for bowls, and in rainy weather for shovelboard, but might also save the expense of a gardener or of a groom.
Trang 338 - The coarse and ignorant squire, who thought that it belonged to his dignity to have grace said every day at his table by an ecclesiastic in full canonicals, found means to reconcile dignity with economy. A young Levite — such was the phrase then in use — might be had for his board, a 'small garret, and ten pounds a year...
Trang 259 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Trang 338 - Second, two sons of peers were Bishops; four or five sons of peers were priests, and held valuable preferment: but these rare exceptions did not take away the reproach which lay on the body. The clergy were regarded as, on the whole, a plebeian class. And, indeed, for one who made the figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants.
Trang 254 - I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue : I will keep dmy mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.
Trang 231 - I understand," said the President, " you taught us how to spin, so as to rival Great Britain in her manufactures ; you set all these thousands of spindles at work, which I have been delighted in viewing, and which have made so many happy by a lucrative employment." " Yes, sir," said Mr. Slater, " I suppose that I gave out the Psalm, and they have been singing to the tune ever since.
Trang 136 - It's no great matter whether I see them to-night or not, for nine of them have such bad constitutions that all the physicians in the world can't save them, and the other six have such good constitutions that all the physicians in the world can't kill them.

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