The Leisure Hour, Հատորներ 367-418W. Stevens, printer, 1859 |
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... minds from a survey of exter- nal nature , which Mr. Short had addressed to every one , from Mr. Kingston down to Nelly ... mind to accompany him . " The more the better , " says Brown ; and so off they go , perhaps taking three or four ...
... minds from a survey of exter- nal nature , which Mr. Short had addressed to every one , from Mr. Kingston down to Nelly ... mind to accompany him . " The more the better , " says Brown ; and so off they go , perhaps taking three or four ...
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... mind was truly great . In that age of meanness , frivolity , and vice , his genius naturally allied itself to great thoughts , great studies , great objects . His in- tellect was solid , vigorous , and comprehensive ; taking in the ...
... mind was truly great . In that age of meanness , frivolity , and vice , his genius naturally allied itself to great thoughts , great studies , great objects . His in- tellect was solid , vigorous , and comprehensive ; taking in the ...
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... mind like ours , Conscious of weakness in its noblest powers , And in a world where , other ills apart , The roving eye misleads the careless heart , To limit thought , by nature prone to stray Wherever freakish fancy points the way ...
... mind like ours , Conscious of weakness in its noblest powers , And in a world where , other ills apart , The roving eye misleads the careless heart , To limit thought , by nature prone to stray Wherever freakish fancy points the way ...
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... mind from a number of weak fancies and imaginations , and it raiseth the mind to acknowledge that to God all things are possible . Sayings of Lord Bacon . ANECDOTE OF JOHN NEWTON . - Two or three years be- fore the death of that eminent ...
... mind from a number of weak fancies and imaginations , and it raiseth the mind to acknowledge that to God all things are possible . Sayings of Lord Bacon . ANECDOTE OF JOHN NEWTON . - Two or three years be- fore the death of that eminent ...
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... mind , ingeniously and good - humouredly entering into the spirit of the appalling scene , persuaded the " gentlemen " to try the monkeys first , before they turned out the less amusing ani- mals ! Whilst they performed this ...
... mind , ingeniously and good - humouredly entering into the spirit of the appalling scene , persuaded the " gentlemen " to try the monkeys first , before they turned out the less amusing ani- mals ! Whilst they performed this ...
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Էջ 261 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Էջ 450 - Rip now resumed his old walks and habits; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time, and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favor.
Էջ 389 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Էջ 182 - I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preachers ; their doctrines are most repulsive, and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and do away with all distinctions. It is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth. This is highly offensive and insulting, and I cannot but wonder that your ladyship should relish any sentiments so much...
Էջ 392 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Էջ 96 - The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Էջ 269 - Club," compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy, but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak; and, as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his deformity was probably in part the effect of his application. His...
Էջ 244 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Էջ 390 - As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home ; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maidservants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.
Էջ 125 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.