The Church-goer. Rural rides; or, Calls at country churchesJohn Ridler, 1847 - 259 pages |
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... neighbours that you had a design on the person or purse of the old bachellor - that I determined your honest though humble worth should be as gratefully set forth as it has been noiselessly shown . Nor do I now merely allude to mere ...
... neighbours that you had a design on the person or purse of the old bachellor - that I determined your honest though humble worth should be as gratefully set forth as it has been noiselessly shown . Nor do I now merely allude to mere ...
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... neighbours in their day , which was about the date of Edward the Third : and this same Sir John , who when at home called Norton his locality , and was reputed a giant , must have been fond of manly games , for there are two stones ...
... neighbours in their day , which was about the date of Edward the Third : and this same Sir John , who when at home called Norton his locality , and was reputed a giant , must have been fond of manly games , for there are two stones ...
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... neighbour : the ruins of Bolton Abbey , in half a dozen different phases , and a few pictorial efforts of native talent , adorned the walls . Whether like Dick Tinto , in Scott , the village artist had run up a score at the Bear and ...
... neighbour : the ruins of Bolton Abbey , in half a dozen different phases , and a few pictorial efforts of native talent , adorned the walls . Whether like Dick Tinto , in Scott , the village artist had run up a score at the Bear and ...
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... neighbour , who was one moment repeating the responses with wondrous energy , and the next staring round on the congregation with restless pertinacity , taking occasion at times to inquire of me where they made stained glass , and if I ...
... neighbour , who was one moment repeating the responses with wondrous energy , and the next staring round on the congregation with restless pertinacity , taking occasion at times to inquire of me where they made stained glass , and if I ...
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... neighbours , has taken up his place in the aisle , amongst those to whose level he would fain fancy him- self not yet quite reduced . I do not say that we are bound to consult those whims , much less encourage them ; but the poor are a ...
... neighbours , has taken up his place in the aisle , amongst those to whose level he would fain fancy him- self not yet quite reduced . I do not say that we are bound to consult those whims , much less encourage them ; but the poor are a ...
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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.