The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 páginas |
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... heart on an entirely different kind of charge : perhaps he is a disappointed man , eager to get away , and ( the very worst possible policy ) trying for every vacancy of which he can hear . You think , as you pass by , and sit down on ...
... heart on an entirely different kind of charge : perhaps he is a disappointed man , eager to get away , and ( the very worst possible policy ) trying for every vacancy of which he can hear . You think , as you pass by , and sit down on ...
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... heart . Well said a very wise mor- tal , ' Better is he that ruleth his spirit , than he that taketh a city . ' And that ruling of the spirit which is needful to rightly meet disappointment , brings out the best and noblest qualities ...
... heart . Well said a very wise mor- tal , ' Better is he that ruleth his spirit , than he that taketh a city . ' And that ruling of the spirit which is needful to rightly meet disappointment , brings out the best and noblest qualities ...
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... heart is in his work desire a charge whose duty and responsibility are comparatively small : but I firmly believe that in the case of the great majority of clergymen , it is the interest and delight they feel in their work , and not its ...
... heart is in his work desire a charge whose duty and responsibility are comparatively small : but I firmly believe that in the case of the great majority of clergymen , it is the interest and delight they feel in their work , and not its ...
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... heart of human generations for many thousands of years . Yes- terday was Sunday ; and I was preaching to my simple rustics an autumn sermon from the text We all do fade as a leaf . As I read out the text , through a half - opened window ...
... heart of human generations for many thousands of years . Yes- terday was Sunday ; and I was preaching to my simple rustics an autumn sermon from the text We all do fade as a leaf . As I read out the text , through a half - opened window ...
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... , even before he has attained to middle age , sit down and look back upon his college days , and his college friends ; and think sadly of the failures , the disappoint- ments , the broken hearts , which have been among AND SUCCESS . 25.
... , even before he has attained to middle age , sit down and look back upon his college days , and his college friends ; and think sadly of the failures , the disappoint- ments , the broken hearts , which have been among AND SUCCESS . 25.
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Página 224 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Página 126 - Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 222 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 332 - It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too /far.
Página 150 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Página 120 - Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 151 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Página 119 - P. Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there...
Página 118 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY; His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 103 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.