The Warden of Berkingholt, Or, Rich and PoorJ.H. Parker, 1843 - 300 páginas |
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... duty is as easy as it is pleasant . " This was said with the good breeding of one who seeks to anticipate any hesitation from motives of delicacy on the part of those to whom any attention is offered ; but it was thrown away on Mr ...
... duty is as easy as it is pleasant . " This was said with the good breeding of one who seeks to anticipate any hesitation from motives of delicacy on the part of those to whom any attention is offered ; but it was thrown away on Mr ...
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... duty in the state of life to which it had pleased God to call her ; —to be the stay and comfort of her father's declining years , —and to give herself up with more than common devotion to alms - deeds and works of charity . Noble and ...
... duty in the state of life to which it had pleased God to call her ; —to be the stay and comfort of her father's declining years , —and to give herself up with more than common devotion to alms - deeds and works of charity . Noble and ...
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... duty . We are permitted to count the cost of the sacrifice , and to make it or not as we judge best . Happy for us if we can , -not sinful if we cannot . If a man can receive the saying , let him receive it he will be the wiser , and ...
... duty . We are permitted to count the cost of the sacrifice , and to make it or not as we judge best . Happy for us if we can , -not sinful if we cannot . If a man can receive the saying , let him receive it he will be the wiser , and ...
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... duty to refuse assistance . " 66 Such cases do continually arise ; but even ir these discretion is requisite . Unhappily the change in the Poor Laws has produced one state of things which never was contemplated . There are places in ...
... duty to refuse assistance . " 66 Such cases do continually arise ; but even ir these discretion is requisite . Unhappily the change in the Poor Laws has produced one state of things which never was contemplated . There are places in ...
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... duty with respect to them , must needs introduce the reader to places and characters which he can have little pleasure in contemplating , but which are brought under his notice , with a very different purpose from that of merely amusing ...
... duty with respect to them , must needs introduce the reader to places and characters which he can have little pleasure in contemplating , but which are brought under his notice , with a very different purpose from that of merely amusing ...
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Abraham acquainted alluded answered asked Aunt Amy Beatrice Beaulieu Becket beggars Berkingholt bonnet brethren Bridget Riley called Carraway character charity Christian Church circumstances Cordelia course dare say daugh daughter dear Dick Allen do'nt Dog and Duck duty evil exclaimed Exeter Hall eyes Fairfield Court father favour fear feel Flemyng footman friends Fustian girl give habits hand hear heard heart Holy hope kitchen labours live Livingstone London looked Macedon Mary Clinton matter means meet mendicancy mind Miss Clinton mistress morning neighbours Nelly never Nicholas Ferrar object observed Offertory old lady once opinion papa party perhaps person poor prayer present principles proceeded reader religious replied respect Roe's RUGELEY sal volatile season seemed shew Sir Henry speak suppose sure Susan Allen Swamp Swithun's tell thing thought tion Venham Warden wo'nt woman workhouse Wortwell
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Página 185 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Página 242 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by : Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Página 215 - 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.
Página 112 - Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractis'd ; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn ; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Página 164 - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life ; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect tlpat it is solitary, I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well ; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
Página 267 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Página 30 - ... state of life to which it had pleased God to call her...
Página 290 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Página 208 - There is a thing, Harry, which tho.u hast often heard of, and it is known to many in our land by the name 410 of pitch. This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth the company thou keepest...
Página 215 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.