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Page 25 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's word doth allow, are not joined together by God, neither is their matrimony lawful.
Page 247 - How oft her eyes read his ! her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts inclined ; Still subject — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth and sorrow of his sorrow.
Page 247 - Across the threshold led, And every tear kissed off as soon as shed, His house she enters — there to be a light Shining within, when all without is night ; A guardian- angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing...
Page 247 - To fire-side happiness, to hours of ease, Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. How oft her eyes read his ; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts inclined ; Still subject — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth, and sorrow of his sorrow.
Page 247 - Then before All they stand — the holy vow And ring of gold, no fond illusions now, Bind her as his.
Page 247 - Yet, how rarely is it that the parties who contract this relation have a large experience, a clear insight into character, or any true knowledge of themselves ! In each other they may have the tenderest confidence, and for each other the warmest love; but only a brief time passes ere they discover that the harmonious progression of two minds, each of which has gained an individual and independent movement, is not always a thing of easy attainment. Too soon, alas ! is felt a jar of discord — too...
Page 39 - I should do with him?" immediately adding, " My lord, I shall just do nothing at all ; and when he is tired of England he will go abroad again.
Page 247 - There is no relation in life so important — none involving so much of happiness or misery — as that of husband and wife. Yet, how rarely is it that the parties who contract this relation have large experience...
Page 209 - Even the selfish man has some share of love which he bestows on his family and his friends. A nobler mind hath at heart the common interest of the society or country of which he makes a part. And there is still a more diffusive spirit, whose being or intentions reach the whole mass of mankind, and are continued beyond the present age, to a succession of future generations.
Page 80 - ... you; — why, the appointment is worth £3,000 a year ! But there, there, somebody must get it — as well he as another. There, my dear," (signing a paper,) " give your crockery man that, and tell him he has brought his wares to a fine market.