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... fall , if it hath not sometimes made even those falls rebound to a greater height of grace , by teaching us , from every such step , to tread more sure for the future ; and what a comfortable prospect must this yield to a man that hath ...
... fall , if it hath not sometimes made even those falls rebound to a greater height of grace , by teaching us , from every such step , to tread more sure for the future ; and what a comfortable prospect must this yield to a man that hath ...
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... fall into , as it is , indeed , the most open violation of the grand characteristic of the Gospel . I have been ready to shudder , when I have heard some of our preachers inveigh , in that uncharitable way , against their fellow ...
... fall into , as it is , indeed , the most open violation of the grand characteristic of the Gospel . I have been ready to shudder , when I have heard some of our preachers inveigh , in that uncharitable way , against their fellow ...
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... fall into . It is plainly the want of this meek Christian spirit , that makes men to intermix so much deadly acrimony in all their disputes and differences , as serves only to destroy the small sparks of charity that are left among us ...
... fall into . It is plainly the want of this meek Christian spirit , that makes men to intermix so much deadly acrimony in all their disputes and differences , as serves only to destroy the small sparks of charity that are left among us ...
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... fall down a hole . ' " I'LL take your part , " as the dog said when he robbed the cat of her portion of dinner . - MOTTO OF THE NORTH - EAST WIND . " Cut and come again . " In a barber's shop , in North Shields , there is a bill ...
... fall down a hole . ' " I'LL take your part , " as the dog said when he robbed the cat of her portion of dinner . - MOTTO OF THE NORTH - EAST WIND . " Cut and come again . " In a barber's shop , in North Shields , there is a bill ...
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... fall was commanded to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow . Job , the honest , upright , and patient , was a farmer , and his firm endurance has passed into a proverb . Socrates was a farmer , and yet wedded to the glory of his ...
... fall was commanded to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow . Job , the honest , upright , and patient , was a farmer , and his firm endurance has passed into a proverb . Socrates was a farmer , and yet wedded to the glory of his ...
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Page 240 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 240 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman...
Page 274 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 238 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 266 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Page 96 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 221 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Page 291 - My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Page 221 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Page 238 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.