... work. I felt very little. I had been dreaming I was a very great man. But that is going off, and I find I shall conform in time to that state of life to which it has pleased God to call me. The Eclectic Review - Էջ 352խմբագրել է - 1836Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| 1831 - 548 էջ
...you, during the year that has just closed, bought any thing not only so useless, but so unsuitable to " that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you,'" as ear-rings ? Or have you purchased any thing in dress that is merely ornamental ? Have... | |
| 1837 - 704 էջ
...and bathe in rivers without being control'd by any one, to come home and work. I felt very little. I had been dreaming I was a very great man. But that...Skiddaw. Still, I turn back to those great places where I * Patterdalc. wandered about, participating in their greatness. After all, I could not live in Skiddaw.... | |
| Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 408 էջ
...after holiness, and, more particularly, an unceasing attention to those particular duties, which belong to that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call us. What others possess is nothing to us : — but, of what we ourselves possess, be it much or... | |
| 1838 - 556 էջ
...being accustomed to wander free as air among mountains, and batbe in rivers without being controled by any one, to come home and work. 1 felt very little....it has pleased God to call me. Besides, after all, Fleet Street and the Strand are better places to live in for good and all than amidst Skiddaw. Still,... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 էջ
...felt very little. I had been dreaming I was a very great man ; but that is going off, and I find I shall conform, in time, to that state of life to which...are better places to live in for good and all than amid Skiddaw. Still, I turn back to those great places where I wandered about, participating in their... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 էջ
...I felt very little. I had been dreaming I was a very great man; but that is going off, and I find I shall conform, in time, to that state of life to which...are better places to live in for good and all than amid Skiddaw. Still, I turn back to those great places where I wandered about, participating in their... | |
| 1838 - 564 էջ
...I felt very little. I had been dreaming I was a very great man. But that is going off, and I find I shall conform in time to that state of life to which...it has pleased God to call me. Besides, after all, Fleet Street and the Strand are better places to live in for good and all than amidst Skiddaw. Still,... | |
| 1840 - 248 էջ
...the communion which I have 'enjoyed with God in Christ in them? Also, to a closer walk in my duty, in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call me, towards my family, and towards all men ? III. Has it had a happy effect on my temper, to make it more... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 էջ
...struck with the solitary grandeur and beauty of the lakes. ' Fleet Street and the Strand," he says, ' ho completed the conquest of that country, ordered...that fell into hla hands to bo put to death.] ' R wandered about participating in their greatness. I could spend a year, two, three years among them,... | |
| 1843 - 434 էջ
...governess But this is idle ; my mother would reprove me for it ; she would tell me to do my duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call me, and leave the rest to Him. You know how she was deserted by her father in consequence of her marriage... | |
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