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Page 76
... sure to be spurned by the one and the other ; and insult from once pretended friends , whom they had striven to serve , was more galling , and harder to be forgiven , than the hostility of those who had always been open enemies . With ...
... sure to be spurned by the one and the other ; and insult from once pretended friends , whom they had striven to serve , was more galling , and harder to be forgiven , than the hostility of those who had always been open enemies . With ...
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... sure , " observed Mr F. Skinner the blacksmith . Stop a bit , " said Sam ; " I can tell it better than yo ' can , ony day . Sukey , ax missis to put me a sup more gin in here . " This order executed , Samuel wetted his whistle , and ...
... sure , " observed Mr F. Skinner the blacksmith . Stop a bit , " said Sam ; " I can tell it better than yo ' can , ony day . Sukey , ax missis to put me a sup more gin in here . " This order executed , Samuel wetted his whistle , and ...
Page 84
... sure of my self - possession . As Harry came round , I caught , once more , with a side glance , the glitter of a glass levelled full upon my figure ; and my hopes sprang like mercury at the sound of the low , silver - toned- " Who is ...
... sure of my self - possession . As Harry came round , I caught , once more , with a side glance , the glitter of a glass levelled full upon my figure ; and my hopes sprang like mercury at the sound of the low , silver - toned- " Who is ...
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... sure they were not aware of so much value in any one thing these poets had written , as could make it worth while even to look into their books It was on a November night , about ten o'clock , that I first found myself installed in a ...
... sure they were not aware of so much value in any one thing these poets had written , as could make it worth while even to look into their books It was on a November night , about ten o'clock , that I first found myself installed in a ...
Page 104
... sure they would exclaim ; not perhaps confessing to that form of delin- quency which they had been taught to expect- trivial or extravagant sentimentalism ; German- ity alternating with tumid inanity ; not this , but something quite as ...
... sure they would exclaim ; not perhaps confessing to that form of delin- quency which they had been taught to expect- trivial or extravagant sentimentalism ; German- ity alternating with tumid inanity ; not this , but something quite as ...
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Page 140 - Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 127 - That things depart which never may return: Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first glow, Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn. These common woes I feel. .One loss is mine Which thou too feel'st, yet I alone deplore. Thou wert as a lone star, whose light did shine On some frail bark in winter's midnight roar: Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stood Above the blind and battling multitude: In honoured poverty thy voice did weave Songs consecrate to truth and liberty, — Deserting...
Page 432 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 443 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders...
Page 242 - Hymn. AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily course of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and early rise To pay thy morning sacrifice. 2...
Page 137 - And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
Page 140 - And the saying pleased the whole multitude : and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the HOLY GHOST...
Page 186 - ... in convulsion, to the farthest influences of the earth. The huge demon of Mechanism smokes and thunders, panting at his great task, in all sections of English land; changing his shape like a very Proteus; and infallibly, at every change of shape, oversetting whole multitudes of workmen, and as if with the waving of his shadow from afar, hurling them asunder, this way and that, in their crowded march and course of work or traffic ; so that the wisest no longer knows his whereabout.
Page 242 - With forty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then Marched down aguin.
Page 125 - He had a mind which was somehow At once circumference and centre Of all he might or feel or know; Nothing went ever out, although Something did ever enter.