'Random truths in common things' occasional papers, by the author of 'The harvest of a quiet eye'.Religious Tract Society, 1869 |
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... present day bound to come at my beck , and give me their counsel and opinion in a case of difficulty ; I stretch but an arm , and Butler , Waterland , Bacon , Pearson , obsequiously minister to my requirements : yea , the great of yet ...
... present day bound to come at my beck , and give me their counsel and opinion in a case of difficulty ; I stretch but an arm , and Butler , Waterland , Bacon , Pearson , obsequiously minister to my requirements : yea , the great of yet ...
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... present day , as " almsgiving " has come to be called ( and hence no wonder at the proverb , " cold as charity " ) , this subject always rather rouses me . It is well that I hear the expected snow - muffled rattle out- side , and the ...
... present day , as " almsgiving " has come to be called ( and hence no wonder at the proverb , " cold as charity " ) , this subject always rather rouses me . It is well that I hear the expected snow - muffled rattle out- side , and the ...
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... present , then , I will look only on the sunny side of conversation . The And indeed some of our sunniest ( as well as our most firelit ) hours are those passed in sweet converse with friends . young in thoughtful converse with the ...
... present , then , I will look only on the sunny side of conversation . The And indeed some of our sunniest ( as well as our most firelit ) hours are those passed in sweet converse with friends . young in thoughtful converse with the ...
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... present enjoyment was added the keen zest of anticipation . At the end of this long wood - path , when the brow of the hill was reached , and the veil of copse was withdrawn , -what would be the picture , if the screen had been so ...
... present enjoyment was added the keen zest of anticipation . At the end of this long wood - path , when the brow of the hill was reached , and the veil of copse was withdrawn , -what would be the picture , if the screen had been so ...
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... present subject , how many a beautiful lesson is taught us in the pages of Holy Writ from the birds ! Their order and just instinct , how touchingly are these contrasted with the perverseness and unnatural rebellion of man : — 66 Yea ...
... present subject , how many a beautiful lesson is taught us in the pages of Holy Writ from the birds ! Their order and just instinct , how touchingly are these contrasted with the perverseness and unnatural rebellion of man : — 66 Yea ...
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Страница 162 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Страница 158 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Страница 117 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Страница 352 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Страница 5 - PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o:er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which bloom their hour and fade.
Страница 166 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Страница 289 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Страница 83 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Страница 49 - When each by turns was guide to each, And Fancy light from Fancy caught, And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought ; Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech...
Страница 184 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.