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Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich - The Forged Coupon
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... a seat, the bishop told him what had happened in his diocese. "It all comes from weakness of spirit and from ignorance. You are a learned man, and I rely on you. Go to the village, call the parishioners together, and convince them of their error." "If your Grace bids ...
Borrow George - Lavengro
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... to live, bringing her husband's library with her: I soon found my way to it, and examined every book. Her husband must have been a learned man, for amongst much Greek and Hebrew I found several volumes in Armenian, or relating to the language.'And why did you not tell ...
Voltaire - The Philosophical Dictionary
[ FRENCH FICTION]
... what country would a wise, free man, a man with a moderate fortune, and without prejudices, choose? A member of the government of Pondicherry, a learned man enough, returned to Europe by land with a Brahmin better educated than the ordinary Brahmin. "What do you think of the government of ...
Butler Samuel - Way Of All Flesh
[ ENGLISH SATIRE & HUMOR]
... did not come to very much; he supposed there were some difficulties, but his father, who at any rate was an excellent scholar and a learned man, was probably quite right here, and he need not trouble himself more about them. So little impression did the conversation make on him, ...
Burke Edmund - Reflections On The Revolution In France
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... In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature.* * Ecclesiasticus, chap. xxxviii. verses 24, 25. "The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise".- "How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, ...
Emerson Ralph Waldo - Nature; Adresses And Lectures
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... that natural appearance as its picture. An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite; flowers express to us the delicate affections. Light and darkness are ...
Voltaire - Candide
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... this world is nothing but one continued scene of civil war." "Yes," said Candide, "and I have seen worse than all that; and yet a learned man, who had the misfortune to be hanged, taught me that everything was marvelously well, and that these evils you are speaking of were ...
Eliot George - Adam Bede
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... in their criticism of other men's scholarship have yet been of a relenting and indulgent temper in private life; and I have heard of a learned man meekly rocking the twins in the cradle with his left hand, while with his right he inflicted the most lacerating sarcasms on an ...
Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich - Hadij Murad
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... Hamzad approached Kunzakh we sent our Elders to him to say that we would agree to join the Ghazavat if the Imam would sent a learned man to explain it to us. Hamzad had our Elders' mustaches shaved off, their nostrils pierced, and cakes hung to their noses, and in ...
Bulwer-lytton Edward George - Rienz
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... take pains with one''s vineyard," said a vine-dresser. "Ho, hollo! - long life to Pandulfo di Guido! Make way for master Pandulfo; he is a learned man; he is a friend of the great Notary''s; he will tell us all about the picture; make way, there - make way!" Slowly and ...
Trollope Anthony - Phineas Finn
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... there. It is the prospect of a quiet decent life, to which would be attached the performance of certain homely duties. Dr Macnuthrie is a learned man, but I doubt whether he can do anything for such a malady.&cdq;

&odq;You are quite right, Robert; he can do ...

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