The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes, Volume 6Robert Hall Baynes 1869 |
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... truth of his pitiful tale by his subsequent conduct . And yet , as I recall to my discomfited remembrance these different circumstances of proved credulity , I cannot but feel that under the same circumstance I should prove as weak ...
... truth of his pitiful tale by his subsequent conduct . And yet , as I recall to my discomfited remembrance these different circumstances of proved credulity , I cannot but feel that under the same circumstance I should prove as weak ...
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... truth is , I was in hopes that you might be kind enough to lend me the few shillings I shall want to get to my sons ' , and I shall be very proud to send them back to you as soon as ever I get home . I'm not begging , sir , for I'd ...
... truth is , I was in hopes that you might be kind enough to lend me the few shillings I shall want to get to my sons ' , and I shall be very proud to send them back to you as soon as ever I get home . I'm not begging , sir , for I'd ...
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... truth of the story beforehand , having considerable suspicions of tales of religious persecution in our days and country ; the more so as I thought Miss Williams ' coquetting with the nuns , who certainly were very kind to her , gave ...
... truth of the story beforehand , having considerable suspicions of tales of religious persecution in our days and country ; the more so as I thought Miss Williams ' coquetting with the nuns , who certainly were very kind to her , gave ...
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... truth down to the very bottom . But look here , it's very odd , religion always brings us round to a very different subject ; there can't be any connection . But I want one thing before I go . " " Lady Flora ? " " Exactly . " Amidst all ...
... truth down to the very bottom . But look here , it's very odd , religion always brings us round to a very different subject ; there can't be any connection . But I want one thing before I go . " " Lady Flora ? " " Exactly . " Amidst all ...
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... sure to know . He is intimately acquainted with both . Poor fellow ! " Dr. Hartley repeated again , " I do most sincerely hope there is no truth in the report . " LIGHT ABOVE THE CITY . BY SARAH DOUDNEY . ABOVE A LONELY LIFE . 73.
... sure to know . He is intimately acquainted with both . Poor fellow ! " Dr. Hartley repeated again , " I do most sincerely hope there is no truth in the report . " LIGHT ABOVE THE CITY . BY SARAH DOUDNEY . ABOVE A LONELY LIFE . 73.
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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.