Tales of the Priory, Band 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 |
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affected ALPHEUS FELCH Antinomian appeared ation attention became beggar Betsy better Betty Allen Betty's Canteril Castle Howard Charles Charley child church circumstance comfort consolation creature cried dear delight desired duties enquired eyes farmer father fear feelings felt fered geant Greville hand happy Happy day heard heart hope humble Humphries husband improvement Joseph kind knew labour lady late length liam little Bill look manufactory marriage Mary master Methodists mind mistress mother natural neat ness never nutmeg observed once pain perceived person phries pleasure poor Betty poor boy poor woman preacher racter remember rendered rience sense Sergeant Hallam servant sister situation soon sorrow spirit stranger suffered sure Susan tain tears thee thing Thorncliffe Tomlinson took tural wants Watchall wife William wished workhouse wretched young youth
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Seite 36 - ... cleansing and salving the wretched object of their compassion. Many a time did William's mind revert to his first friend Sergeant Hallam, as he witnessed the sufferings, or reflected on the faults of the boy before him ; and he silently thanked God, that his mind had been stored in the first stages of existence, with those precepts which, even in his severest trials, had " kept his hands from picking and stealing, and his tongue from lying ;" and most ardently did his warm heart desire to extend...
Seite 260 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Seite 1 - MUTABILITY in them doth play Her cruell sports to many mens decay ? Which that to all may better yet appeare, I will rehearse that whylome I heard say, How she at first her selfe began to reare Gainst all the Gods, and th' empire sought from them to beare.
Seite 44 - Nay, mother, surely you now talk as my master used to say the Antinonaians did, when he abused them without mercy. Depend upon it, we must all strive to enter in at the strait gate, or we shall never be found within it. It is by patience, as well as faith, that we must inherit the promises ; it is God's will to grant our blessings as the reward of our diligence. You know the path of the just is as the light which shineth more and more, unto the perfect day ; it therefore stands to reason that the...
Seite 102 - ... it, to one who always heard him with patience, and understood what he was saying ; and it became also natural, that he should relate his early sorrows to one who so sincerely sympathised in every thing which he related, and who so generously repressed her own troubles, lest they should afflict her friend, or reflect upon a husband who was evidently unworthy of her. This husband, finding himself more comfortable...
Seite 220 - York pleased him, and in many interesting remains of antiquity to be found there, and which he anxiously explored, he became sensible how much of his pleasure was owing to the little of historical knowledge which, through the kindness of Mr. Greville, he had acquired, which had opened a new world upon his mind by the multitude of ideas it elicited, and which were now at every step enlarged, while his memory was exercised and strength, ened by the appeals made to it by every circumstance around him.
Seite 93 - Susajjj to renew a little of her former exertion, in rendering the apartments tidy, and becoming a kind of rival to a Mrs. Hill, in the neighbourhood, at whose house the preacher had lately lodged, and who was a quiet, sickly woman, devoid of all exhibition, but so truly good and praiseworthy, that her virtues had frequently been spoken of in Mrs. Humphries's presence, to her great annoyance. Just as she was beginning to improve a little in these respects, it so happened, that a Mr.
Seite 282 - Such lessons have beeujbrced on me many a time, and I rejoice to say, the result has been increased ; humility towards God, extended anxiety for the present and eternal good of my parishioners, and redoubled exertions for their welfare, a'nd see ! — see, how I am repaid !" " I know your congregation is very flourishing now, when I last preached for you, I saw with pleasure, Thorncliffe and his family, in their seat, and a number of his workmen about the place ; your Sunday-school also was very...
Seite 231 - ... the city at a time when the assizes had filled it with strangers, on whose carelessness or compassion she might practise, might yet be in a state of suffering, it was his duty to attend to as a fellow creature. But though William drew towards the woman, his looks were almost in despite of himself, fixed upon the man ; he was well dressed in...