Charles Kingsley: his letters and memories of his life, ed. by his wife [F.E. Kingsley].Henry S. King, 1877 |
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... coming illness . And here his knowledge of physiology and that delicate organization of brain , which had given him many a sad experience in his own child- hood , made him keen to watch and detect such symptoms . Weariness at lessons ...
... coming illness . And here his knowledge of physiology and that delicate organization of brain , which had given him many a sad experience in his own child- hood , made him keen to watch and detect such symptoms . Weariness at lessons ...
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... coming on , and faces the elements as boldly as he faces hawk and crow - down to the delicate warble of the wren , who slips out of his hole in the brown bank , where he has huddled through the frost with wife and children , all folded ...
... coming on , and faces the elements as boldly as he faces hawk and crow - down to the delicate warble of the wren , who slips out of his hole in the brown bank , where he has huddled through the frost with wife and children , all folded ...
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... coming ashore , one every ten minutes , and would try his own hand . I have killed heaps of big pike round with it . I tried it in Lord Eversley's lakes on Monday , when the fish wouldn't have even his fly . Capricious party is Jaques ...
... coming ashore , one every ten minutes , and would try his own hand . I have killed heaps of big pike round with it . I tried it in Lord Eversley's lakes on Monday , when the fish wouldn't have even his fly . Capricious party is Jaques ...
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... coming here stirred up many remembrances . He began by saying he had got ( he could not say learnt ) his first social lesson here , at the time of the Bristol riots . He described , in his own graphic way , some of those days ; and then ...
... coming here stirred up many remembrances . He began by saying he had got ( he could not say learnt ) his first social lesson here , at the time of the Bristol riots . He described , in his own graphic way , some of those days ; and then ...
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... have learned in the experiment priceless truths concerning myself , my fellow - men , and the City of God , which is eternal in the heavens , for ever coming down among men , and actualizing itself more and more in every succeeding age .
... have learned in the experiment priceless truths concerning myself , my fellow - men , and the City of God , which is eternal in the heavens , for ever coming down among men , and actualizing itself more and more in every succeeding age .
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Page 304 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Page 453 - Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Page 68 - And thro' the mountain-walls A rolling organ-harmony Swells up, and shakes and falls. Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear : ' O just and faithful knight of God ! Ride on ! the prize is near.
Page x - Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
Page 449 - And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.
Page 33 - O Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me never be confounded.
Page 123 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 380 - HARK! hark, my soul; angelic songs are swelling O'er earth's green fields, and ocean's wavebeat shore : How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Of that new life when sin shall be no more. Angels of Jesus, angels of light, Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. 2 Onward we go, for still we hear them singing, 'Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come...
Page 45 - Wheresoever thou findest Disorder, there is thy eternal enemy; attack him swiftly, subdue him; make Order of him, the subject not of Chaos, but of Intelligence, Divinity and Thee! The thistle that grows in thy path, dig it out, that a blade of useful grass, a drop of nourishing milk, may grow there instead. The waste...
Page 381 - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person.