Passages from the Auto-biography of a "Man of Kent" [i.e. Robert Cowtan]Whittingham and Wilkins, 1866 - 407 страници |
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... lady , and in her youthful days must have been very pretty . I return , however , from this little digression , to my father . After receiving a plain commercial educa- tion , at the best school in the neighbourhood , he was ap ...
... lady , and in her youthful days must have been very pretty . I return , however , from this little digression , to my father . After receiving a plain commercial educa- tion , at the best school in the neighbourhood , he was ap ...
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... lady to whose care I was entrusted for my early education . She quite won my young heart by her gentle manners and loving disposition , and was the first out of my own family to call forth that desire to please , which I have cultivated ...
... lady to whose care I was entrusted for my early education . She quite won my young heart by her gentle manners and loving disposition , and was the first out of my own family to call forth that desire to please , which I have cultivated ...
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... lady during the time of my remaining at the school , and I only hope that if she ever became his wife that she has turned out better than her mamma . There was a younger son , a lad of about eight years old , who took a great liking to ...
... lady during the time of my remaining at the school , and I only hope that if she ever became his wife that she has turned out better than her mamma . There was a younger son , a lad of about eight years old , who took a great liking to ...
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... lady during the week were selected and told off for a combing , and upon them she would scrape away so unmercifully that many a time have I been ready to scream out at the pain inflicted . Numerous are the tales of fun and frolic that ...
... lady during the week were selected and told off for a combing , and upon them she would scrape away so unmercifully that many a time have I been ready to scream out at the pain inflicted . Numerous are the tales of fun and frolic that ...
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... ladies , but could also roll out the paste and manipulate some of the fancy articles manufactured pretty well . There was also a large drapery business directly oppo- site to my father's , and I was allowed to have the full range of ...
... ladies , but could also roll out the paste and manipulate some of the fancy articles manufactured pretty well . There was also a large drapery business directly oppo- site to my father's , and I was allowed to have the full range of ...
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Страница 345 - But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Страница 389 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Страница 115 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Страница 179 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Страница 286 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Страница 128 - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
Страница 90 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Страница 122 - God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Страница 345 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Страница 3 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the Earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.