... pray beside him, never leaving him night or day until the time comes to lay him in the grave, which it has been one of his duties to dig for himself. You reflect over the simple, unpretentious, dreary end of a man who has spent the best years of his... The Villa on the Rhine - Página 706por Berthold Auerbach - 1869 - 990 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1865 - 472 páginas
...gentleman is being defrauded of a portion of that small pittance which is held sufficient reward for a man who has spent the best years of his life in the service. Can any one devise a scheme to prevent injustice from being first perpetrated and then perpetuated... | |
| Edward John Waring - 1878 - 454 páginas
...der Muskularen Ruckgratsverkriimmungen. Bremen, 8vo, pp. 112. A most excellent treatise; the work of a man who has spent the best years of his life in studying and perfecting his system, and in endeavouring to force on the attention of the profession... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1893 - 338 páginas
...life of his congregations and for the existence and preservation of his gospel. It is always sad when a man, who has spent the best years of his life in some great work and has seen his efforts crowned with success, is suddenly made aware that all his... | |
| Benjamin Bartis Comegys - 1893 - 320 páginas
...for his dependent family. You know, you all know, by observation or experience, how sad it is to see a man who has spent the best years of his life in mercantile pursuits, who has held up his head among the highest and the best, in the consciousness... | |
| Olive Walton Vivian, Herbert Vivian - 1902 - 474 páginas
...been one of his duties to dig for himself. You reflect over the simple, unpretentious, dreary end of a man who has spent the best years of his life in the extremes of self99 sacrifice, going out of his way to deny himself the most innocent pleasures and... | |
| George Allan Hutton - 1907 - 266 páginas
...and the softening influence of his genial presence upon all sorts and conditions of men. It is seldom that a man who has spent the best years of his life in literary pursuits and in academic seclusion, is fitted to grapple successfully with the many details... | |
| Algot E. Strand - 1910 - 402 páginas
...contented that they would not be willing to exchange their farms at any price. But it is little wonder that a man who has spent the best years of his life in breaking the ground and building a comfortable home should not easily be willing to give it up. The... | |
| Hutton Webster - 1916 - 756 páginas
...been one of his duties to dig for himself. You reflect over the simple, unpretentious, dreary end of a man who has spent the best years of his life in the extremes of selfsacrifice, going out of his way to deny himself the most innocent pleasures and the... | |
| 1919 - 1104 páginas
...was adopted, the vote being unanimous. Delegate Hanley, Local No. 20: I rise to speak in behalf of a man who has spent the best years of his life In the service of this organization, Secretary Hannahan. He has been away from the business (or a good many... | |
| 1899 - 1064 páginas
...visits to England, loses touch with the motherland and becomes virtually a foreigner, or to assert that a man who has spent the best years of his life in a colony does not know more about that colony — to say nothing of the empire at large — than a... | |
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