The curate of Cumberworth: and The vicar of Roost, by the author of 'The owlet of Owlstone Edge'. |
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... looks like it . I can't be sure . Look whether it has a blue label . No : don't you see Harrison in big letters ? " A grunt of impatience from the guard , who buries himself once more in the depths of the luggage - van , hurling down ...
... looks like it . I can't be sure . Look whether it has a blue label . No : don't you see Harrison in big letters ? " A grunt of impatience from the guard , who buries himself once more in the depths of the luggage - van , hurling down ...
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... look like modesty to act as though no one was ever in earnest in the work of winning souls , but yourself , And I doubt whether the conviction of your own earnestness , and the sincerity of your desire to do good , will be a sufficient ...
... look like modesty to act as though no one was ever in earnest in the work of winning souls , but yourself , And I doubt whether the conviction of your own earnestness , and the sincerity of your desire to do good , will be a sufficient ...
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... look back , he will master the temptation most speedily and effectually who does not let his zeal run away with him at first , and who has not wearied himself out in skir- mishing before the real fight begins . ” 66 Well , sir , that is ...
... look back , he will master the temptation most speedily and effectually who does not let his zeal run away with him at first , and who has not wearied himself out in skir- mishing before the real fight begins . ” 66 Well , sir , that is ...
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... look after the clock for a few days , I shall be exceedingly obliged to him . " " It will give me very great pleasure , " said Mr. Smith , " and all the more because my watch was set this morning to Greenwich time . " And being thus ...
... look after the clock for a few days , I shall be exceedingly obliged to him . " " It will give me very great pleasure , " said Mr. Smith , " and all the more because my watch was set this morning to Greenwich time . " And being thus ...
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... look after the church clock . " the And with that sensible resolution , the new Curate of Cumberworth went to sleep . CHAPTER V. TAKING TIME BY THE FORELOCK . " And then he drew a dial from his poke , And looking on it with lack ...
... look after the church clock . " the And with that sensible resolution , the new Curate of Cumberworth went to sleep . CHAPTER V. TAKING TIME BY THE FORELOCK . " And then he drew a dial from his poke , And looking on it with lack ...
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Page 31 - twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 144 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Page 233 - WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain ; He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.
Page 133 - Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head...
Page 221 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 182 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.