Edith Sydney. A TaleBurns, Oates, & Company, 1868 - 381 pages |
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Page 66
... understanding and reason can find no sufficient proof . He cannot wish me to be such a hypocrite as to act upon principles I do not acknowledge in my heart . And how can I help not believing them ? it is not my own fault that I have no ...
... understanding and reason can find no sufficient proof . He cannot wish me to be such a hypocrite as to act upon principles I do not acknowledge in my heart . And how can I help not believing them ? it is not my own fault that I have no ...
Page 67
... understand ? But enough , I must accept my doom ; there is no divine authority , and I will yield to no human one ; henceforth , I will study the faith of others only for my own intellectual amusement or contempt -knowledge is power . I ...
... understand ? But enough , I must accept my doom ; there is no divine authority , and I will yield to no human one ; henceforth , I will study the faith of others only for my own intellectual amusement or contempt -knowledge is power . I ...
Page 77
... It certainly was an undeniable fact ; Miss Brooke could not dispute it , but she did not at all understand Edith's practical application thereof . A reserved , undemonstrative nature was utterly incomprehensible EDITH SYDNEY . 77.
... It certainly was an undeniable fact ; Miss Brooke could not dispute it , but she did not at all understand Edith's practical application thereof . A reserved , undemonstrative nature was utterly incomprehensible EDITH SYDNEY . 77.
Page 87
... understand the pos- sibility of having anything in one's mind that one would dislike to say before all the world , unless it were some terrible crime ; but she knew Edith too well to venture upon any interference , for which indeed ...
... understand the pos- sibility of having anything in one's mind that one would dislike to say before all the world , unless it were some terrible crime ; but she knew Edith too well to venture upon any interference , for which indeed ...
Page 88
... understand you , " he said ; is it you wish to know ? ” " what Edith looked up almost fiercely . " I wish to know everything , " she exclaimed passionately : " I want to know what my mother was like , what she did , what she thought ...
... understand you , " he said ; is it you wish to know ? ” " what Edith looked up almost fiercely . " I wish to know everything , " she exclaimed passionately : " I want to know what my mother was like , what she did , what she thought ...
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afraid Agnes's Anglican answer asked Miss Brooke astonishment aunt believe Bentick better Bruce calf calmly Captain Maynard Catholic certainly child Church of England Church of Rome Clare Hall Compline confession cousin Crowland dear Edith looked Edwyn Hamilton English Eugénie de Guérin exclaimed Edith eyes faith Father Joseph feeling Fernley gave gilt give grace hand hear heard heart Holy hope hour Jesuit knew Lady Sydney laughed living Mary mean mind Miss Lyle Miss Sydney morning morocco nature never pain Père Mérot perhaps person poor Poor Clare Portman Street pray prayers priest question quietly racter replied Agnes replied Edith Sacrament seemed Sir Charles smile Soeur Sœur Rosalie soul speak spoke Stanley started strong suddenly suppose sure tell Thank thing thought tion to-morrow tone truth turned Vincent of Paul voice waiting walk wish words دو
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Page 39 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls— the World.
Page 365 - ... to do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them.
Page 295 - WISH not, dear friends, my pain away, — Wish me a wise and thankful heart, With God, in all my griefs, to stay, Nor from his loved correction start. The dearest offering he can crave His portion in our souls to prove, What is it to the gift he gave.
Page 147 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 114 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 61 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 97 - Through the dim struggling crowd and weary strife, Brings kindred spirits nigh whom we would pray Might live with us, and by our death-bed stay. Do these, our chosen ones, sink down at last Into the common grave of visions past? Ah ! there are few men in the world can say They had a dream which they do not dream still ; Few fountains in the heart which cease to play, When those whose touch evoked them at their will Sit there no more : and I my dreams fulfil When to high Heaven my tongue still nightly...