Footsteps of Jeanne D'Arc: A PilgrimageHurst and Blackett, 1886 - 375 strán (strany) |
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Strana 296 - With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too ; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought ; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
Strana 305 - The tears into his eyes were brought. And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
Strana 277 - ... white circle of the slow moon is lifted up among the barred clouds, step by step, line by line ; star after star she quenches with her kindling light, setting in their stead an army of pale, penetrable, fleecy wreaths in the heaven, to give light upon the earth, which move together, hand in hand, company by company, troop by troop, so measured in their unity of motion, that the whole heaven seems to roll with them, and the earth to reel under them.
Strana 73 - Archimedian levers that find in FANATICISM the spot out of the world by which to move the world. The prudent man may direct a state ; but it is the enthusiast who regenerates it — or ruins.
Strana 182 - And alle thing there prospered for you til the tyme of the Siege of Orleans taken in hand God knoweth by what advis.
Strana 339 - Souvenons-nous toujours, Français, que la Patrie, chez nous, est née du cœur d'une femme, de sa tendresse et de ses larmes, du sang qu'elle a donné pour nous.
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Strana 38 - ... where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call 'God's birds' because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Strana 213 - The Lord Philip de Lalain was likewise on foot (for at that time, among the Burgundians, it was most honourable to fight in that manner among the archers), and there was always a large number of these volunteers among them, to encourage the infantry, and make them fight the better ; which custom they had...
Strana 138 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.