Things to be Remembered in Daily Life ...1863 |
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... night Again involve the desolate abyss , Till the Great Father , through the lifeless gloom , Extend his arm to light another world , And bid new planets roll by other laws . We remember a piece of stage sentiment , beginning "
... night Again involve the desolate abyss , Till the Great Father , through the lifeless gloom , Extend his arm to light another world , And bid new planets roll by other laws . We remember a piece of stage sentiment , beginning "
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... Father's eye ; Who hears with all a Father's love The broken heart's repentant sigh , Calms the vexed heart , and bids the spirit rest . * Abridged from an excellent Communication , by William Bates , to Notes and Queries , 2d series ...
... Father's eye ; Who hears with all a Father's love The broken heart's repentant sigh , Calms the vexed heart , and bids the spirit rest . * Abridged from an excellent Communication , by William Bates , to Notes and Queries , 2d series ...
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... Father Lyne published a description of this dial , which consists of seventy - three parts : it is illustrated with seventeen plates : the details are condensed in No. 400 of the Mirror . About 66 1710 , William Allingham , a ...
... Father Lyne published a description of this dial , which consists of seventy - three parts : it is illustrated with seventeen plates : the details are condensed in No. 400 of the Mirror . About 66 1710 , William Allingham , a ...
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... , who , they asserted , had , at his father's suggestion , applied the pendulum to a clock in Venice which was finished in 1649. - Adam Thomson's Time and Timekeepers , pp . 67 , 68 . but one hand . We were told by the late.
... , who , they asserted , had , at his father's suggestion , applied the pendulum to a clock in Venice which was finished in 1649. - Adam Thomson's Time and Timekeepers , pp . 67 , 68 . but one hand . We were told by the late.
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... father's , that he should run round the Charter - house playing - green , of three acres , three times every morning ; and to this early practice he attributed his great length of days . Wesley satisfied himself of the expediency of ...
... father's , that he should run round the Charter - house playing - green , of three acres , three times every morning ; and to this early practice he attributed his great length of days . Wesley satisfied himself of the expediency of ...
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Page 43 - WAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run, Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice...
Page 10 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 4 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 7 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 59 - Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny ! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more — every thing presses on — whilst thou art twisting that lock, — see ! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to...
Page 256 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Page 253 - But as when the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...
Page 130 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 219 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by...
Page 47 - Falsely luxurious ! will not Man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losiiig half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th...