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... honour is cheerfully given " to whom honour is due , " and all lawful authority sincerely respected , pride in all its forms will be protested against and treated with ineffable contempt . CONTENTS . CHAP . I. - Introductory • CHAP ...
... honour is cheerfully given " to whom honour is due , " and all lawful authority sincerely respected , pride in all its forms will be protested against and treated with ineffable contempt . CONTENTS . CHAP . I. - Introductory • CHAP ...
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... honours in the way of anniversary sermons and addressing public meetings , that we rather shunned and avoided them . We had so much of the regular and ordi- nary work of an itinerant preaching life to do , and we were so cheerful and ...
... honours in the way of anniversary sermons and addressing public meetings , that we rather shunned and avoided them . We had so much of the regular and ordi- nary work of an itinerant preaching life to do , and we were so cheerful and ...
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... honours thick upon him . " Now , why all this nonsense , innocent as it may be ? Consider , " some would say , " what is writ- ten , and never mind who wrote it . " But the question , Who wrote it ? is but too often what is called " a ...
... honours thick upon him . " Now , why all this nonsense , innocent as it may be ? Consider , " some would say , " what is writ- ten , and never mind who wrote it . " But the question , Who wrote it ? is but too often what is called " a ...
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... honours . The abilities of these men were very little known till they came out in this public controversy ; one of them was minister of a village so small and a church so diminutive , that a man might walk through the place without ...
... honours . The abilities of these men were very little known till they came out in this public controversy ; one of them was minister of a village so small and a church so diminutive , that a man might walk through the place without ...
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... the use of his library . " But I paid a heavy price for these honours , in being frowned upon by conscientious dissenters , and re- garded with suspicion and distrust by some of my own 55 -Garstang, Chelmsford, Bridlington, Market Rasen.
... the use of his library . " But I paid a heavy price for these honours , in being frowned upon by conscientious dissenters , and re- garded with suspicion and distrust by some of my own 55 -Garstang, Chelmsford, Bridlington, Market Rasen.
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Page 91 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 20 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 179 - Heaven! Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Page 106 - This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.
Page 89 - Disaster'd stands ; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain : Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing thro...
Page 90 - His tufted cottage rising through the snow, He meets the roughness of the middle waste, Far from the track and bless'd abode of man! While round him night resistless closes fast, And every tempest, howling o'er his head, Renders the savage wilderness more wild.
Page 87 - Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove, The chamber, or refectory, may die : A necessary act incurs no blame. Not so when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field : There they are privileged ; and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the...
Page 87 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 89 - As thus the snows arise ; and foul, and fierce, All Winter drives along the darken'd air ; In his own loose revolving fields, the swain Disaster'd stands ; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow ; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain : Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on...
Page 91 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.