The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes, Volume 6Robert Hall Baynes 1869 |
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Page 31
... sermon which he had preached had driven a hearer through him ; that is , away from his congregation , the fact being that the sermon came too much home , and had been driven through the hearer . - Many ancient and venerable words , used ...
... sermon which he had preached had driven a hearer through him ; that is , away from his congregation , the fact being that the sermon came too much home , and had been driven through the hearer . - Many ancient and venerable words , used ...
Page 68
... sermons to prepare , which fills up my evenings . If not , I go out . " " What an awful worker you are ! Do you never indulge in the pleasures of idleness - such as sitting in the dark , doing nothing , and gazing into the fire ...
... sermons to prepare , which fills up my evenings . If not , I go out . " " What an awful worker you are ! Do you never indulge in the pleasures of idleness - such as sitting in the dark , doing nothing , and gazing into the fire ...
Page 89
... and when he found that the people were eager to return home without hearing his sermons , he put on the disguise of a minstrel , and sitting on the bridge with his harp , drew them to learn David's Psalter , which he turned into old 89.
... and when he found that the people were eager to return home without hearing his sermons , he put on the disguise of a minstrel , and sitting on the bridge with his harp , drew them to learn David's Psalter , which he turned into old 89.
Page 97
... sermon at St. Paul's , however , was preached against his former party ; and he died worn out by study and preaching , and was buried at Salisbury , where he had built the library and bestowed his walking staff on young Richard Hooker ...
... sermon at St. Paul's , however , was preached against his former party ; and he died worn out by study and preaching , and was buried at Salisbury , where he had built the library and bestowed his walking staff on young Richard Hooker ...
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... sermons , the " Sayings of the Great Forty Days , " the " Law of the Love of God , " and " Letters on the Discipline of Public Schools . " Dr. Moberly , by public estimation , has been long marked out for the mitre , and it is happy for ...
... sermons , the " Sayings of the Great Forty Days , " the " Law of the Love of God , " and " Letters on the Discipline of Public Schools . " Dr. Moberly , by public estimation , has been long marked out for the mitre , and it is happy for ...
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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.