Horę subsecivęEdmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 486 pages |
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... wild - flowers in grass , or by the way- side . My first recollection of my father , my first impres- sion , not only of his character , but of his eyes and face and presence , strange as it may seem , 4 Hora Subseciva .
... wild - flowers in grass , or by the way- side . My first recollection of my father , my first impres- sion , not only of his character , but of his eyes and face and presence , strange as it may seem , 4 Hora Subseciva .
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... wild fruits - they touch and awaken the memory in a strange way . ' Tibbie ' is now living at Thankerton . 1 This sofa , which was henceforward sacred in the house , he had always beside him . He used to tell us he set her down upon it ...
... wild fruits - they touch and awaken the memory in a strange way . ' Tibbie ' is now living at Thankerton . 1 This sofa , which was henceforward sacred in the house , he had always beside him . He used to tell us he set her down upon it ...
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... have given way , and his 1 I have been told that once in the course of the sermon his voice trembled , and many feared he was about to break down . faculties have either consumed themselves in wild , wasteful splendour ΙΟ Hora Subseciva .
... have given way , and his 1 I have been told that once in the course of the sermon his voice trembled , and many feared he was about to break down . faculties have either consumed themselves in wild , wasteful splendour ΙΟ Hora Subseciva .
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John Brown. faculties have either consumed themselves in wild , wasteful splendour and combustion , or dwindled into lethargy.1 The manse became silent ; we lived and slept and played under the shadow of that death , and we saw , or ...
John Brown. faculties have either consumed themselves in wild , wasteful splendour and combustion , or dwindled into lethargy.1 The manse became silent ; we lived and slept and played under the shadow of that death , and we saw , or ...
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... wilds of Dunsyre or the dreary Lang Whang.1 This singular man came to the manse every Friday evening for many years , and he and my father discussed everything and everybody ; —beginning with tough , strong head work — a bout at ...
... wilds of Dunsyre or the dreary Lang Whang.1 This singular man came to the manse every Friday evening for many years , and he and my father discussed everything and everybody ; —beginning with tough , strong head work — a bout at ...
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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.