Student and Family Miscellany, Volume 9N.A. Calkins, 1854 |
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Página 85 - Conversation must and ought to grow out of materials on which men can agree, not upon subjects which try the passions.—Sydney Smith. A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of
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Página 127 - are derived primarily from wheat-corns. Our smallest weight, the grain, is a grain of wheat. This is not a speculation, it is an historically registered fact. Henry III. enacted that an ounce should be the weight of 640 dry grains of wheat from the middle of the ear. And
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Página 7 - A CURIOSITY.—The following curious sentence is said to have been taken from a volume of sermons published during the reign of James I. of England: "This dial shows that we must die all; yet notwithstanding, all houses are turned into ale houses, our cares into cates, our paradise into