Horæ subsecivæEdmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 486 pages |
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... clear thinker , and generally a powerful man . He was also much beloved , for his heart was large and warm . ' While he was waiting for death to overtake him , being undermined as I have said , I have heard my mother say that he once ...
... clear thinker , and generally a powerful man . He was also much beloved , for his heart was large and warm . ' While he was waiting for death to overtake him , being undermined as I have said , I have heard my mother say that he once ...
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... clear darkness of the past , makes the image grow dim and disappear . Every one whose thoughts are not seldom with the dead , must have felt both these conditions ; how , in certain passive , tranquil states , there comes up into Letter ...
... clear darkness of the past , makes the image grow dim and disappear . Every one whose thoughts are not seldom with the dead , must have felt both these conditions ; how , in certain passive , tranquil states , there comes up into Letter ...
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... clear- ness were so great ; he was so totus in illo , whatever it was , that he recorded , by a secret of its own , his 1 His reading aloud of everything from John Gilpin to John Howe was a fine and high art , or rather gift . Henderson ...
... clear- ness were so great ; he was so totus in illo , whatever it was , that he recorded , by a secret of its own , his 1 His reading aloud of everything from John Gilpin to John Howe was a fine and high art , or rather gift . Henderson ...
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... clear , untroubled by likings or dislikings , dwelling and working in thought and speculation and observation as ends in themselves , and as their own rewards the one hunting for a principle or a ' divine method ; ' the other sapping or ...
... clear , untroubled by likings or dislikings , dwelling and working in thought and speculation and observation as ends in themselves , and as their own rewards the one hunting for a principle or a ' divine method ; ' the other sapping or ...
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... clear and full , ' Yes- ' The moon takes up the wondrous tale , And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth . ' As we passed through Slateford , he spoke of Dr. Belfrage , his great - hearted friend , of his ...
... clear and full , ' Yes- ' The moon takes up the wondrous tale , And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth . ' As we passed through Slateford , he spoke of Dr. Belfrage , his great - hearted friend , of his ...
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Page 95 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 104 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 55 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Page 424 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 469 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 423 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 105 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 95 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 280 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 355 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.