Report and Transactions, Volume 8Guernsey Star and Gazette Company, 1922 - Guernsey |
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Page 14 - And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the Lord ; for his mercies are great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Page 120 - Friends, in the fear of the Lord, and before this assembly, I take this my friend AB to be my wife, promising, through divine assistance, to be unto her a loving and faithful husband, until it shall please the Lord by death to separate us.
Page 15 - SUMMER is coming, summer is coming. I know it, I know it, I know it. Light again, leaf again, life again, love again,' Yes, my wild little Poet. Sing the new year in under the blue. Last year you sang it as gladly. ' New, new, new, new ! ' Is it then so new That you should carol so madly? ' Love again, song again, nest again, young again,' Never a prophet so crazy ! And hardly a daisy as yet, little friend, See, there is hardly a daisy.
Page 85 - To tell of thy loving-kindness early in the morning, * and of thy truth in the night season; 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute; * upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp. 4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy works; * and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy hands.
Page 120 - Husband promising with divine assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them. And moreover they the said Daniel JSTeall and Sarah Mifflin (she according to the custom of marriage assuming the name of her Husband) did as a further confirmation thereof then and there to these presents, set their hands.
Page 109 - The sponge represents a kind of subaqueous city, where the people are arranged about the streets and roads in such a manner that each can easily appropriate his food from the water as it passes along.
Page 80 - To struggle when hope is banished ; To live when life's salt is gone ; To dwell in a dream that's vanished ; To endure and go calmly on...
Page 262 - As to religion there are only three or four people in the island who attend service, and if an ecclesiastic goes into the country he is greeted with jeers and laughter, and often has dirt thrown at him. They are worse than Turks, and the Jurats connive at all this.
Page 213 - ... inches wide, which probably is intended to represent a girdle. There are also two short curved lines below the shoulders in the front of the statue about on a line with the two projecting breasts. The statue stood in the churchyard, to the south of the church, until the middle of the last century...
Page 167 - Gaels, of their blood, and speaking the ancient language. The Celtic paganism lies profound and potent still beneath the fugitive drift of Christianity and Civilisation, as the deep sea beneath the coming and going of the tides.