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... piece . On the right , a thick wall conceals the city , and we could scarcely obtain a glimpse of a few steeples , whose clumsy construction would lead one to conceive that labour- ers , not architects , had been employed in the ...
... piece . On the right , a thick wall conceals the city , and we could scarcely obtain a glimpse of a few steeples , whose clumsy construction would lead one to conceive that labour- ers , not architects , had been employed in the ...
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... piece with their habitations . Within doors sinking under the weight of rich furs , costly shawls , jewels , and trinkets , they went out into the streets wrapped in coarse , and dingy , and often thread - bare clothing . " Nothing can ...
... piece with their habitations . Within doors sinking under the weight of rich furs , costly shawls , jewels , and trinkets , they went out into the streets wrapped in coarse , and dingy , and often thread - bare clothing . " Nothing can ...
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... piece of amber , we discover in it an insect of the former world , in all its natural beauty and form , as it has lived and breathed . At another time , in breaking a rock in pieces , in order to examine its correspondent parts , and to ...
... piece of amber , we discover in it an insect of the former world , in all its natural beauty and form , as it has lived and breathed . At another time , in breaking a rock in pieces , in order to examine its correspondent parts , and to ...
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... piece , her father could preservation . All her great intellect never suppose that he was interrupting was employed to serve him . But who her in any serious employment . To can express what she suffered in critical such a degree did ...
... piece , her father could preservation . All her great intellect never suppose that he was interrupting was employed to serve him . But who her in any serious employment . To can express what she suffered in critical such a degree did ...
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... piece burst with the explosion . standard , where every meal ought to have its counteracting. Freezing is carried on much more expeditiously when the water is at rest , than when in motion . It is easy to assign the cause of this ; as ...
... piece burst with the explosion . standard , where every meal ought to have its counteracting. Freezing is carried on much more expeditiously when the water is at rest , than when in motion . It is easy to assign the cause of this ; as ...
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Página 318 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Página 286 - Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide ; The Form remains, the Function never dies ; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish ; — be it -so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour ; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
Página 569 - ... all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Página 362 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 556 - To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the teatable...
Página 346 - Mr. Wesley and I lay on the floor; he had my greatcoat for his pillow, and I had Burkitt's ' Notes on the New Testament ' for mine. After being here near three weeks, one morning about three o'clock, Mr. Wesley turned over, and, finding me awake, clapped me on the side, saying: 'Brother Nelson, let us be of good cheer; I have one whole side yet, for the skin is off but on one side.
Página 554 - In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week, for the purpose of giving it a thorough cleaning, and putting things to rights — always taking the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly, on their stocking feet.
Página 554 - The grand parlour was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week; for the purpose of giving it a thorough...
Página 556 - Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished to have at hand; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammed — and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy that the lady of...
Página 386 - For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.