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" The quality of mercy is not strained, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed, — It blesseth him that gives and him that takes... "
Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia; the portions ... - Page 110
by Richard Ford - 1855
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The secret of the cavern, Volume 1

mrs. Burke - 1805 - 234 pages
...quality of mercy is not strain'd ; " It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven " Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed— " It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. It becomes " The throned Monarch better than his crown." AlTER the departure of Mr. O' Byron's family,...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 5

Methodist Church - 1822 - 494 pages
...it is mercy to the souls and bodies of men ; it is mercy for time and eternity ; it is mercy, that is twice blessed ; it " Blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." It issues from tne bands of its dispensers in streams of life and salvation, and returns in honour, and...
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The Gossip; or, Literary, domestic, and useful recorder, by Francis Fiddlewood

1826 - 492 pages
...the genuine language of nature, that ' it descends, like rain, from heaven, upon the spot beneath. It is twice blessed : it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.' It is the most disinterested of all principles, and therefore the most commendable. The breast that is warmed...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1871 - 1146 pages
...quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed : It blesseth him that gives and him that takes ; It is mightiest in the mightiest." It was in this feeling, anxious to do good only, and hoping that words...
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Annals of Bath, from the Year 1800 to the Passing of the New Municipal Act

Rowland Mainwaring - Bath (England) - 1838 - 528 pages
...quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth, as the gentle rain, from heaven, Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. It is an attribute to God himself! And earthly power doth then shew likest Gods, When mercy seasons justice."*...
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Gatherings from Spain

Richard Ford - Spain - 1846 - 360 pages
...and intimacy. It is an act of civility, and implies no superiority, nor is there any humiliation in the acceptance; it is twice blessed, " It blesseth...natives, who are its ready and obedient slaves, and, like a small kind word spoken in time, it works miracles. There is no country in the world where the...
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The Spaniards and Their Country

Richard Ford - 1847 - 686 pages
...and intimacy. It is an act of civility, and implies no superiority, nor is there any humiliation in the acceptance ; it is twice blessed, " It blesseth...natives, who are its ready and obedient slaves, and, like a small kind word spoken in time, it works miracles. There is no country in the world where the...
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The Spaniards and Their Country, Volume 2

Richard Ford - Spain - 1847 - 202 pages
...and intimacy. It is an act of civility, and implies no superiority, nor is there any humiliation in the acceptance ; it is twice blessed, " It blesseth...natives, who are its ready and obedient slaves, and, like a small kind word spoken in time, it works miracles. There is no country in the world where the...
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The three patriarchs; a series of Scripture stories

Margaretta (pseud.) - 1850 - 176 pages
...experienced that " the quality of mercy" " Droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the earth beneath. It is twice blessed. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ***** It is an attribute to God himself. In peace and love they separated as they had met — Esau returning to...
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Essays in Literature and Ethics

Charles White - Christianity - 1853 - 488 pages
...increaseth, that watereth and is watered in turn, that illuminates and is itself illuminated. Education is twice blessed ; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. It is, therefore, with unhesitating pleasure that we here refer to the fact, that the general mind, in our...
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