The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... feeling ; and the people learn to worship God without distraction . This is the prevailing character of all the purer types of Protestant Christianity ; and taking even the extreme examples of the Moravian and the Plymouth Brethren , we ...
... feeling ; and the people learn to worship God without distraction . This is the prevailing character of all the purer types of Protestant Christianity ; and taking even the extreme examples of the Moravian and the Plymouth Brethren , we ...
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... feeling , the effect is often magical and thrilling , whereas no priest ever intoned ' them without giving a monastic character to the most free and glorious effusions of the heart . When all is said , it must be owned that no strict ...
... feeling , the effect is often magical and thrilling , whereas no priest ever intoned ' them without giving a monastic character to the most free and glorious effusions of the heart . When all is said , it must be owned that no strict ...
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... in his hunting rifle sleep ; In his mills he's taught the steam to turn a thousand iron wheels : O ! but yet , with all his wisdom , his cold heart no pity feels . Sweetly sound the white men's sermons , how their God 18 ...
... in his hunting rifle sleep ; In his mills he's taught the steam to turn a thousand iron wheels : O ! but yet , with all his wisdom , his cold heart no pity feels . Sweetly sound the white men's sermons , how their God 18 ...
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... feel as if peace itself were looking into you . It was this quiet looking forth of the girl's very mind , her calmly thoughtful and gentle mind , which captivated the heart of John Penberthy , and secured for his wife a life - long ...
... feel as if peace itself were looking into you . It was this quiet looking forth of the girl's very mind , her calmly thoughtful and gentle mind , which captivated the heart of John Penberthy , and secured for his wife a life - long ...
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... feeling of disappointment at least , when the vacant and cheerless , if not dirty , scene of indoor life is disclosed ; but to peep into Harriet's cottage was to see something charmingly cozy . The white sanded floor , the table with ...
... feeling of disappointment at least , when the vacant and cheerless , if not dirty , scene of indoor life is disclosed ; but to peep into Harriet's cottage was to see something charmingly cozy . The white sanded floor , the table with ...
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Page 134 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 265 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 301 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 266 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 322 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 141 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Page 265 - After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling she answered me, ' I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas I good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 269 - Therefore, to ride comely; to run fair at the tilt or ring; to play at all weapons; to shoot fair in bow or surely in gun; to vault lustily; to run, to leap, to wrestle, to swim; to dance comely; to sing, and play...
Page 266 - It is your shame (I speak to you all, you young gentlemen of England) that one maid should go beyond you all, in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues.
Page 266 - ... else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips...