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... thing itself I can describe , for I see it even now in my mind's eye . It was ( I say was , for doubtless it has long ceased to be ) a huge cake , composed of flour , eggs , saffron , and raisins , and , for aught I know , of many other ...
... thing itself I can describe , for I see it even now in my mind's eye . It was ( I say was , for doubtless it has long ceased to be ) a huge cake , composed of flour , eggs , saffron , and raisins , and , for aught I know , of many other ...
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... things , Nature in her summer dress , the world teeming with life , the trees in richest verdure , the birds carolling out their songs of praise , the flowers filling the air with balmy sweetness , that all this would tend to engender ...
... things , Nature in her summer dress , the world teeming with life , the trees in richest verdure , the birds carolling out their songs of praise , the flowers filling the air with balmy sweetness , that all this would tend to engender ...
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... thing secured : but the title that baptism bestows is a defeasible title ; in no case is it unconditional , save in ... things at a time of excitement , and then we hear no more of them . The silence preceding a storm : For a time there ...
... thing secured : but the title that baptism bestows is a defeasible title ; in no case is it unconditional , save in ... things at a time of excitement , and then we hear no more of them . The silence preceding a storm : For a time there ...
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... however , seemed to have got a very fair idea of the truth , for he said , ' Oh ! you mean it's no go . ' He cares as little for external things as a toad 16 Five Minutes to spare . The Tractarians want nothing to make them return to ...
... however , seemed to have got a very fair idea of the truth , for he said , ' Oh ! you mean it's no go . ' He cares as little for external things as a toad 16 Five Minutes to spare . The Tractarians want nothing to make them return to ...
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John Guard. He cares as little for external things as a toad that has been shut up for centuries in a cubic fathom of limestone . Tariff , unde derivatur ? —From Tarifa , a town at the en- trance of the Straits of ... things as a toad ...
John Guard. He cares as little for external things as a toad that has been shut up for centuries in a cubic fathom of limestone . Tariff , unde derivatur ? —From Tarifa , a town at the en- trance of the Straits of ... things as a toad ...
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Seite 292 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Seite 378 - But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them, that God bids us do good for evil : And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Seite 139 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Seite 389 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Seite 145 - Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence!
Seite 212 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 377 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Seite 173 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, — I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Seite 145 - ... interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions of the north all the luxuries of the south ; has diffused the light of knowledge and the charities of cultivated life ; and has thus bound together those scattered portions of the human race, between which nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier.
Seite 77 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.