The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 páginas |
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... never spent days of harder work in all his life , than the days he spent lying blind at Damascus , struggling to get free from the prejudices and convictions of all his past years , and re- solving on the course he would pursue in the ...
... never spent days of harder work in all his life , than the days he spent lying blind at Damascus , struggling to get free from the prejudices and convictions of all his past years , and re- solving on the course he would pursue in the ...
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... never saw : how much I should like to shake each man's hand ! But all these to be a coun- Friends , who fancies were long , long ago : I was pleased try parson , and to make the best of it . have held like stations in life , have you ...
... never saw : how much I should like to shake each man's hand ! But all these to be a coun- Friends , who fancies were long , long ago : I was pleased try parson , and to make the best of it . have held like stations in life , have you ...
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... never can forget . : The Sunday comes when you enter your old pulpit for the last time . You had prepared your sermon in a room from which the carpet had been removed , and amid a general confusion and noise of packing . The church is ...
... never can forget . : The Sunday comes when you enter your old pulpit for the last time . You had prepared your sermon in a room from which the carpet had been removed , and amid a general confusion and noise of packing . The church is ...
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... never be sought in vain . Yet you will delight in all your duty and you will thank God you feel that were your work in life to choose again , you would give your- self to the noblest task that can be undertaken by mor- tal , with a ...
... never be sought in vain . Yet you will delight in all your duty and you will thank God you feel that were your work in life to choose again , you would give your- self to the noblest task that can be undertaken by mor- tal , with a ...
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Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd. dear and true , that you will hope never to part from them while life remains . In such a life , indeed , these Essays , which never would have been begun had my duty been always such , must be written in ...
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd. dear and true , that you will hope never to part from them while life remains . In such a life , indeed , these Essays , which never would have been begun had my duty been always such , must be written in ...
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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.