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... interests , and the joy and playfulness of the moment . The family gatherings were the brightest hours in the day , lit up as they were with his marvel- lous humour . " I wonder , " he would say , " if there is so much laughing in any ...
... interests , and the joy and playfulness of the moment . The family gatherings were the brightest hours in the day , lit up as they were with his marvel- lous humour . " I wonder , " he would say , " if there is so much laughing in any ...
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... interest he took in all their pursuits , their plea- sures , trials , and even the petty details of their everyday life , there sprang up a ' friendship ' between father and children that increased in intensity and depth with years ...
... interest he took in all their pursuits , their plea- sures , trials , and even the petty details of their everyday life , there sprang up a ' friendship ' between father and children that increased in intensity and depth with years ...
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... interest with the coachman - for coachmen are all - knowing , in sublunary and local facts . Moreover , three hours on a real coach will be a second childhood in these roaring and rattling railroad days . I shall much enjoy being ...
... interest with the coachman - for coachmen are all - knowing , in sublunary and local facts . Moreover , three hours on a real coach will be a second childhood in these roaring and rattling railroad days . I shall much enjoy being ...
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... interest in it and congregate there some time before the hour arrives . I wish you could see them , such fine manly handsome fellows . I know it is doing good . It might at first sight be supposed that the time , place , and ...
... interest in it and congregate there some time before the hour arrives . I wish you could see them , such fine manly handsome fellows . I know it is doing good . It might at first sight be supposed that the time , place , and ...
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... interest , but self - sacrifice , is the only law upon which human society can be grounded with any hope of prosperity and permanence . That self - interest is a law of nature I know well . That it ought to be the root law of human ...
... interest , but self - sacrifice , is the only law upon which human society can be grounded with any hope of prosperity and permanence . That self - interest is a law of nature I know well . That it ought to be the root law of human ...
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Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life;, Volume 3 Charles Kingsley,Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley No preview available - 2018 |
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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 42 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 466 - Thou, O Christ, art all I want ; More than all in Thee I find ; liaise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind.
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 35 - O Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me never be confounded.
Page 19 - What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles; Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles ; See in every hedgerow Marks of angels...
Page 477 - When everything that is sincerely good And perfectly divine, With Truth, and peace, and Love shall ever shine About the supreme throne Of Him to...
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 411 - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. 21 The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from GOD.
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.