The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 pages |
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... always be looking back and thinking I might have done better . So , on the whole , I would pre- fer that my reader should himself buy the estate , and bequeath it to me : and then I could soon PAGE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PARSON'S CHOICE.
... always be looking back and thinking I might have done better . So , on the whole , I would pre- fer that my reader should himself buy the estate , and bequeath it to me : and then I could soon PAGE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PARSON'S CHOICE.
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... better way is , to fight these tendencies to the death : to struggle against them , to pray against them : to resign yourself to God's good will to admire and love the man who beats you . This course is the right one , and the happy one ...
... better way is , to fight these tendencies to the death : to struggle against them , to pray against them : to resign yourself to God's good will to admire and love the man who beats you . This course is the right one , and the happy one ...
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... Better is he that ruleth his spirit , than he that taketh a city . ' And that ruling of the spirit which is needful to rightly meet disappointment , brings out the best and noblest qualities that can be found in man . Sometimes , indeed ...
... Better is he that ruleth his spirit , than he that taketh a city . ' And that ruling of the spirit which is needful to rightly meet disappointment , brings out the best and noblest qualities that can be found in man . Sometimes , indeed ...
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... better ? When I look back , and see Ailsa as a cloud , is it because it is a cloud and nothing more ? Or is it , as I have already suggested , that in one respect the analogy between the moral and the material fails . I am going to ...
... better ? When I look back , and see Ailsa as a cloud , is it because it is a cloud and nothing more ? Or is it , as I have already suggested , that in one respect the analogy between the moral and the material fails . I am going to ...
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... better days ! I know that it may be all in vain ; and that after years gradually darkening down you may some day , as you pass the po- lice - office , find a crowd at the door , and learn that they have got the corpse of the poor ...
... better days ! I know that it may be all in vain ; and that after years gradually darkening down you may some day , as you pass the po- lice - office , find a crowd at the door , and learn that they have got the corpse of the poor ...
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Page 224 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 126 - Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 222 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 332 - It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too /far.
Page 150 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Page 120 - Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 151 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Page 119 - P. Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there...
Page 118 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY; His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Page 103 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.