Thoughts for the Thoughtful, by Old HumphreyBoD – Books on Demand, 2024 M08 15 - 292 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1841. |
Contents
A sweet Spirit | 1 |
The broken Thread | 9 |
How far is it to Canaan ? | 15 |
Nothing and Something | 22 |
The Book of Time | 28 |
Turn your Telescope | 41 |
The Corncrake | 47 |
The Holly Bush | 53 |
The Robin and the Sparrow | 193 |
The happy Children | 201 |
The old Pensioner | 208 |
The Fit of Abstraction | 214 |
The churlish Farmer | 221 |
The two Busts | 228 |
The Basket of Summer Fruit | 232 |
Gods Presence | 238 |
Page | 135 |
The Gods of the Heathen | 152 |
Tyranny and Oppression | 158 |
Aged Christians | 166 |
What good can I | 172 |
The Hill Good Hope | 179 |
Rest | 186 |
The setting | 244 |
Suitable Mercies | 252 |
For | 259 |
Town and Country | 265 |
The Allegory | 272 |
The old Hovel | 278 |
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