The Church-goer. Rural rides; or, Calls at country churchesJohn Ridler, 1847 - 259 pages |
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... confess myself indebted to your culinary labours for substantive benefits far surpassing the pen and ink panygerics of fair correspondents without number , for while their fingers have been fashioning compliments your honest hands have ...
... confess myself indebted to your culinary labours for substantive benefits far surpassing the pen and ink panygerics of fair correspondents without number , for while their fingers have been fashioning compliments your honest hands have ...
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... confess , were I the owner of an ordinary animal , so uncritical an eye have I for symmetry , I should often be in the predicament of the Italian , and find it difficult to recognize my bay or brown ( let us suppose it , ) amongst many ...
... confess , were I the owner of an ordinary animal , so uncritical an eye have I for symmetry , I should often be in the predicament of the Italian , and find it difficult to recognize my bay or brown ( let us suppose it , ) amongst many ...
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... confess , as the tidy waiting maid , with her white apron , rivalling the table cloth in cleanliness , placed the dish before me , I felt so entirely satisfied with my own company , I should not have thanked Prince Albert for his . The ...
... confess , as the tidy waiting maid , with her white apron , rivalling the table cloth in cleanliness , placed the dish before me , I felt so entirely satisfied with my own company , I should not have thanked Prince Albert for his . The ...
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... my peregrinations rural , Clifton is of course out of my province , and I do not pretend to call this a professional visit . I merely loitered up the hill , and I will confess to my shame , through no better motive , I fear , than having ...
... my peregrinations rural , Clifton is of course out of my province , and I do not pretend to call this a professional visit . I merely loitered up the hill , and I will confess to my shame , through no better motive , I fear , than having ...
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... confess , however , I have had some serious misgivings of late with respect to you , for you have spoken in such rapturous and glowing terms of the dark , black , and sparkling eyes , long ringlets , and neat clean white aprons of the ...
... confess , however , I have had some serious misgivings of late with respect to you , for you have spoken in such rapturous and glowing terms of the dark , black , and sparkling eyes , long ringlets , and neat clean white aprons of the ...
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Page 97 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Page 211 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 97 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires how...
Page 159 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 202 - Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Page 97 - Psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces Amen...
Page 254 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. Now, in the names of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great?
Page 211 - Oh, Brother Jack, as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I. Just so game, and just so gay, But now, alack, they've stopped my pay. No more I peep out of my blinkers, Here I be — tucked in with clinkers!
Page 145 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 228 - And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end: I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.