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They are very handsome books, and many have full-page paintings by capable artists, but the resulting impression is on the whole that of decadence. He got together a library of fine books, mostly recent copies made for him, and it was dispersed and sacked by the Turks in 1526. It is spoken of with bated breath by the old writers, as if it had contained priceless treasures. I am sceptical.
Therefore, if you make a mistake, have the courage to manfully acknowledge it and take the consequences; I will answer for it that they will not be very dreadful. A fault confessed is half atoned. And, apart from the morality of the thing, let me tell you that a reputation for truthfulness is a priceless possession to a man; it makes his services doubly valuable.
Wilfer is still talking like Mrs. Wilfer especially if it is only in a book? This is the artistic greatness of Dickens, before and after which there is really nothing to be said. He had the power of creating people, both possible and impossible, who were simply precious and priceless people; and anything subtler added to that truth really only weakens it. The mention of Mrs.
He began to feel the awe of the silence and the moonlight; and some vague remembrances of earlier guiltless days of a father's genial love of joyous sensations in the priceless possession of youth and vigour of the admiring smiles and cordial hands which his beauty, his daring, and high spirits had attracted towards him of the all that he had been, mixed with the consciousness of what he was, and an uneasy conjecture of the probable depth of the final fall came dimly over his thoughts, and seemed like the whispers of remorse.
Some light articles of female apparel are seen hanging against the wall, near that sacred precinct where, during the the night-hours, repose the fair daughters of the squatter. The cabin is a rude dwelling indeed a rough casket to contain a pair of jewels so sparkling and priceless.
I have never seen a garden in the autumn before, without the uncouth cabbage in it; but my garden gives the impression of a garden without a head. The cabbage is the rose of Holland. I admire the force by which it compacts its crisp leaves into a solid head. The secret of it would be priceless to the world. We should see less expansive foreheads with nothing within.
One can think of the wide reaches of Africa afterwards, and the gem, like a priceless jewel, set in them. Deep silence, wide horizons, untrodden country on every hand, and this in the midst like a treasure tenderly enfolded." After three days they returned to Bulawayo, and found their pilot impatient to be off.
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The last stage in Hezekiah's great sacrifice was 'thank-offerings, brought by 'as many as were of a willing heart. And will not the self-devotion, kindled by the fire of love, speak in daily life by practical service, and the whole activities of the redeemed man be a long thank-offering for the Lamb who 'bears away the sins of the world'? And if we do not thus offer our whole lives to God, how shall we profess to have taken the priceless benefit of Christ's death?
By the roadside you pass occasionally a mantled pool, where perchance ducks or geese are enjoying themselves; and at times there is a pleasant glimpse of farmyard, with stacks and barns and stables. All things as simple as could be, but beautiful on this summer afternoon, and priceless when one has come forth from the streets of Clerkenwell.
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