A Volume of VarietiesCharles Knight, 1844 - 240 էջ |
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... whole stock of publishers who made large fortunes out of the popular avidity to read . Would such meagre , and often worse than useless productions , satisfy the intellectual cravings of one sincerely desirous of improvement ? The power ...
... whole stock of publishers who made large fortunes out of the popular avidity to read . Would such meagre , and often worse than useless productions , satisfy the intellectual cravings of one sincerely desirous of improvement ? The power ...
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... whole great family of mankind , —and , wherever there be wretchedness and imbecility , still to perceive that every condition has its compensations , and that no blessing of civilization , whether of sound knowledge , or free insti ...
... whole great family of mankind , —and , wherever there be wretchedness and imbecility , still to perceive that every condition has its compensations , and that no blessing of civilization , whether of sound knowledge , or free insti ...
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... whole place is become a hotbed of folly and profusion ; the contests between the pride of rank and the pride of wealth are perking them- selves into your face at every turn ; all the natural rela- tions of society seem overthrown , or ...
... whole place is become a hotbed of folly and profusion ; the contests between the pride of rank and the pride of wealth are perking them- selves into your face at every turn ; all the natural rela- tions of society seem overthrown , or ...
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... whole being ap- peared wrapped up in his happiness . She loved him with a deep and confiding love ; and if her hours of anxiety were not unfrequent , there were moments of ecstasy in their blameless existence which made all peril and ...
... whole being ap- peared wrapped up in his happiness . She loved him with a deep and confiding love ; and if her hours of anxiety were not unfrequent , there were moments of ecstasy in their blameless existence which made all peril and ...
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... whole street was a mart for odoriferous herbs . Cries like these are rare enough now ; yet we have heard them . Once crossing a bye - street we felt an unwonted fragrance in the air ; and as some one has truly said that scents call up ...
... whole street was a mart for odoriferous herbs . Cries like these are rare enough now ; yet we have heard them . Once crossing a bye - street we felt an unwonted fragrance in the air ; and as some one has truly said that scents call up ...
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Էջ 212 - Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?
Էջ 124 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Էջ 171 - Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resigned; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Էջ 124 - ALMIGHTY GOD, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the LORD, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Էջ 124 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Էջ 94 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Էջ 178 - Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Էջ 40 - CHERRY-RIPE, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer : There, Where my Julia's lips do smile ; There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
Էջ 108 - ... their dogs ; but if men be kind unto them, and be in their habit, then are they conquered with kindness, and the sport will be plentiful.
Էջ 139 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tures in a milc-a.