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"Wha' should he be, but some silly, book-learned body that bides in a college there awa'. I dare say there would be weel pleased in any country, where he could get plenty o' books, and a house to hold them in. But what can the like o' him ken o' a young family and what's needed for them. If he had but held his peace, and let the minister bide where he is, it would hae been a blessing, I'm sure."
She is book-learned, and I am not; and she paints, and is a musician too and has all the accomplishments. She was an only child, and her father was quite another sort of person from his brother who now has her in management." "She is an orphan, then?" "Yes, poor girl, and she feels pretty clearly that this isn't the sort of country in which she has a right to live.
The Llangollen people can show nothing like that. Tom Jenkins looked at me for a moment with some surprise, and then said: 'I see you have been here before, sir. 'No, said I, 'never, but I have read about the Tomen Bala in books, both Welsh and English. 'You have, sir, said Tom. 'Well, I am rejoiced to see so book-learned a gentleman in our house. The Tomen Bala has puzzled many a head.
"O, Monkbarns, man! do ye think everybody is as book-learned as yoursell? But ye like to gar folk look like fools ye can do that to Sir Arthur, and the minister his very sell." "Nature has been beforehand with me, Grizel, in both these instances, and in another which shall be nameless but take a glass of ale, Grizel, and proceed with your story, for it waxes late."
The bishops heard this, and book-learned men; this heard earls, this heard barons; each by his wit said wisdom, and this dream they interpreted, as to them best seemed. There durst no knight to evil expound no whit, lest he should lose his limbs that were dear to him.
It is time that the imitative and book-learned systems of the latter should be superseded or liberalized, by some plan better calculated to excite originality of thought and the native energies of the mind. The deeper, kindly sympathies of the heart, too, should not be forgotten; but the germination of these must be despaired of under a rigid hireling system.
Forth went the earls, forth went the lords, forth went the bishops, and the book-learned men, forth went the thanes, forth went the swains, all the Britons, until they came to London.
Go to Elizabeth's feet, confess your marriage impeach your wife and her paramour of adultery and avow yourself, amongst all your peers, the wittol who married a country girl, and was cozened by her and her book-learned gallant. Go, my lord but first take farewell of Richard Varney, with all the benefits you ever conferred on him.
"For an open foe, I have my sword for a traitor, mark me, Rome has the axe; of the first I have no fear; for the last, no mercy." "These are not words that should pass between friends," said Brettone, turning pale with suppressed emotion. "Friends! ye are my friends, then! your hands! Friends, so ye are! and shall prove it! Dear Arimbaldo, thou, like myself, art book-learned, a clerkly soldier.
"Well, when that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals and whipped into the cabinet, it went down my spine like ice. O, I know it's not evidence, Mr. Utterson; I'm book-learned enough for that; but a man has his feelings, and I give you my bible-word it was Mr. Hyde!" "Ay, ay," said the lawyer. "My fears incline to the same point.
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