The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 pages |
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... person who may read this page cherish the purpose of leaving me a hundred thousand pounds to invest in a pretty little estate , I beg that he will at once abandon such a design . He would be doing me no kindness . I should be entirely ...
... person who may read this page cherish the purpose of leaving me a hundred thousand pounds to invest in a pretty little estate , I beg that he will at once abandon such a design . He would be doing me no kindness . I should be entirely ...
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... persons with whom everything goes well , and other persons with whom everything goes ill . There are people who inva- riably win at what are called games of chance . There are people who invariably lose . You remember when Sydney Smith ...
... persons with whom everything goes well , and other persons with whom everything goes ill . There are people who inva- riably win at what are called games of chance . There are people who invariably lose . You remember when Sydney Smith ...
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... person ' has met with a disappointment , ' we all understand what is meant . The phrase , though it is conventionally intel- ligible enough , involves a fallacy : it seems to teach that the disappointment of the youthful heart in the ...
... person ' has met with a disappointment , ' we all understand what is meant . The phrase , though it is conventionally intel- ligible enough , involves a fallacy : it seems to teach that the disappointment of the youthful heart in the ...
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... person begins as a small tradesman ; all he aims at is a maintenance for him and his . That is his first aim . Say he succeeds in reaching it . A little ago he thought he would have been quite content could he only do that . But from ...
... person begins as a small tradesman ; all he aims at is a maintenance for him and his . That is his first aim . Say he succeeds in reaching it . A little ago he thought he would have been quite content could he only do that . But from ...
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... persons generally do sympathize with it . It is easier to sympathize with failure than with success . No trace of envy comes in to mar your sympathy , and you have a pleasant sense that you are looking down from a loftier elevation ...
... persons generally do sympathize with it . It is easier to sympathize with failure than with success . No trace of envy comes in to mar your sympathy , and you have a pleasant sense that you are looking down from a loftier elevation ...
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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.