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... better ( I always feel a strife between doing as the scholar does and doing as other people do ) ; they are not me , I say ; I have them , and , please God , shall soon have better . For it is not a pleasant thing for a young man , or a ...
... better ( I always feel a strife between doing as the scholar does and doing as other people do ) ; they are not me , I say ; I have them , and , please God , shall soon have better . For it is not a pleasant thing for a young man , or a ...
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... better sermon , and for servant - girls preferring to go out in the evening . Alas ! I had now to preach , as I might judge with all probability beforehand , to a company of rustics , of thought yet slower than of speech , unaccustomed ...
... better sermon , and for servant - girls preferring to go out in the evening . Alas ! I had now to preach , as I might judge with all probability beforehand , to a company of rustics , of thought yet slower than of speech , unaccustomed ...
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... better reasons for stay- ing away from church than I had for going , even though I was the parson , and it was my business . Some clergymen separate between themselves and their office to a degree which I can not understand . To assert ...
... better reasons for stay- ing away from church than I had for going , even though I was the parson , and it was my business . Some clergymen separate between themselves and their office to a degree which I can not understand . To assert ...
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... better than I can tell you , sir . Only I always likes parson better out o ' the pulpit , and that's how I come to want to make you look at me , sir , in- stead o ' the water down there , afore I see you in the church to - morrow mornin ...
... better than I can tell you , sir . Only I always likes parson better out o ' the pulpit , and that's how I come to want to make you look at me , sir , in- stead o ' the water down there , afore I see you in the church to - morrow mornin ...
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... better have formed the resolution to be the same man out of the pulpit that I was in it . But the one will go quite right with the other . Out of the pulpit I would be the same man I was in it - seeing and feeling the realities of the ...
... better have formed the resolution to be the same man out of the pulpit that I was in it . But the one will go quite right with the other . Out of the pulpit I would be the same man I was in it - seeing and feeling the realities of the ...
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Page 281 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 335 - For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Page 36 - So it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 326 - Why sayest thou. O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Page 327 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Page 363 - Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
Page 131 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Page 160 - The tears into his eyes were brought. And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
Page 289 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.
Page 326 - Lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created these things that bringeth out their host by number; he callth them all by names by the greatness of his might for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.