The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes, Volume 6Robert Hall Baynes 1869 |
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... fact that she had not the smallest fraction of personal regard or respect for her future husband went for nothing in her meditations . As to his economical habits , she would soon change them . " Of course he means to indulge in ...
... fact that she had not the smallest fraction of personal regard or respect for her future husband went for nothing in her meditations . As to his economical habits , she would soon change them . " Of course he means to indulge in ...
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... fact being that the sermon came too much home , and had been driven through the hearer . Many ancient and venerable words , used now chiefly by the poets in a metaphorical sense , are employed in the West Riding in all their primitive ...
... fact being that the sermon came too much home , and had been driven through the hearer . Many ancient and venerable words , used now chiefly by the poets in a metaphorical sense , are employed in the West Riding in all their primitive ...
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... fact , a perfectly legitimate vocable , derived from the Latin censeo , a verb of very wide signi- fication . It does not imply the putting of sense into any one , but a process of quiet conviction and persuasion . " Do incense Bob that ...
... fact , a perfectly legitimate vocable , derived from the Latin censeo , a verb of very wide signi- fication . It does not imply the putting of sense into any one , but a process of quiet conviction and persuasion . " Do incense Bob that ...
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... fact , to make a long , story short , my old gentleman took a most grateful and cordial leave of me , with the solid proof in his waistcoat pocket that his grammar - school education , sixty or seventy years before , had proved worth ...
... fact , to make a long , story short , my old gentleman took a most grateful and cordial leave of me , with the solid proof in his waistcoat pocket that his grammar - school education , sixty or seventy years before , had proved worth ...
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... fact , though , as will presently appear , waiting her own time to avenge herself . Miss Lendrick , one day at dinner , mentioned the case of a poor young English woman who had taken a room in the same house as herself , having come to ...
... fact , though , as will presently appear , waiting her own time to avenge herself . Miss Lendrick , one day at dinner , mentioned the case of a poor young English woman who had taken a room in the same house as herself , having come to ...
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Page 1 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 635 - Bridget is so sparing of her speech on most occasions, that when she gets into a rhetorical vein, I am careful how I interrupt it. I could not help, however, smiling at the phantom of wealth which her dear imagination had conjured up out of a clear income of poor hundred pounds a year.
Page 628 - It has been the lot of my cousin, oftener perhaps than I could have wished, to have had for her associates and mine, free-thinkers - leaders, and disciples, of novel philosophies and systems; but she neither wrangles with, nor accepts, their opinions.
Page 641 - ... in more venerable characters, than as a gilded room with tapestry and tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects. I consider the clouds above me but as a roof beautifully painted, but unable to satisfy the mind : and at last, like the pictures of the apartment of a connoisseur, unable to afford him any longer a pleasure. So fading upon me, from disuse, have been the beauties of Nature, as they have been confinedly called; so ever fresh, and green, and warm are all the inventions...
Page 33 - And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul. Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 16 - No dog was at the threshold, great or small ; No pigeon on the roof — no household creature — No cat demurely dozing on the wall — Not one domestic feature.
Page 290 - Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ; and to thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven...
Page 173 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 636 - ... could you and I at this moment, instead of this quiet argument, by our well-carpeted fireside, sitting on this luxurious sofa — be once more struggling up those inconvenient staircases, pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours, and the delicious Thank God, we are safe...
Page 641 - My attachments are all local, purely local ; I have no passion — or have had none since I was in love, and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry and books — to groves and valleys.