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... TION . OF every community , as it has pleased God to ordain in the pre- sent constitution of things , the poor must always form a very consider- able majority . The necessities of mankind could never else be sup- plied ; for the rich ...
... TION . OF every community , as it has pleased God to ordain in the pre- sent constitution of things , the poor must always form a very consider- able majority . The necessities of mankind could never else be sup- plied ; for the rich ...
Page 51
... tion , and the least possible appear- ance of providing . Such are the arrangements at the justly famed Hospice of the Great St. Bernard , and such is the willing testimony that a grateful traveller pays , for the kindness with which he ...
... tion , and the least possible appear- ance of providing . Such are the arrangements at the justly famed Hospice of the Great St. Bernard , and such is the willing testimony that a grateful traveller pays , for the kindness with which he ...
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... tion . When his parents had retired to rest , he seated himself by their bed , stripped off his clothes to the waist , and suffered the mosquitoes to settle upon him , without driving them away . " When they have filled themselves with ...
... tion . When his parents had retired to rest , he seated himself by their bed , stripped off his clothes to the waist , and suffered the mosquitoes to settle upon him , without driving them away . " When they have filled themselves with ...
Page 69
... tion cried the youth , " no words , ' tis not a time , your money in- stantly . " " Hear me , young man , " said the archbishop , " you see I am an old man , and my life is of very little consequence ; your's seems far otherwise . I am ...
... tion cried the youth , " no words , ' tis not a time , your money in- stantly . " " Hear me , young man , " said the archbishop , " you see I am an old man , and my life is of very little consequence ; your's seems far otherwise . I am ...
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... TION UNDER SNOW . THE following event , which occur- red during the remarkable hard winter of 1708-9 , is recorded on the most unquestionable authority . A poor woman near Yeovil , in Somer- setshire , having been at Chard to sell her ...
... TION UNDER SNOW . THE following event , which occur- red during the remarkable hard winter of 1708-9 , is recorded on the most unquestionable authority . A poor woman near Yeovil , in Somer- setshire , having been at Chard to sell her ...
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Page 110 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 12 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 131 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 126 - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us : therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness ; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 38 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour and full of expectation; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest.
Page 316 - Paul's ministry, shall be his hope, and joy, and crown of rejoicing "in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming
Page 8 - He had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment,' his answer was, ' That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whensoever he should pass by that place ; for if I be bound to pray for all that be in...
Page 210 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Page 218 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.