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... reading and study was carried on in a peripatetic way . We read much in walking ; and as we often went out early on Sunday morning and did not return till the following Friday night , and could not carry our 14 RAMBLES OF.
... reading and study was carried on in a peripatetic way . We read much in walking ; and as we often went out early on Sunday morning and did not return till the following Friday night , and could not carry our 14 RAMBLES OF.
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... walking ; I nineteen different beds every six weeks ! dition to this , I found I was not popular as a preacher . My superintendent was a reading , think- ing , clever man ; his sermons were well studied , and he took with the people ...
... walking ; I nineteen different beds every six weeks ! dition to this , I found I was not popular as a preacher . My superintendent was a reading , think- ing , clever man ; his sermons were well studied , and he took with the people ...
Page 38
... walking with wonderful gentleness and caution , as if determined to get into no more mischief . When I arrived at the house where I was to dine , the good people stared at me with alarm - my hat crushed , my clothes covered with mud ...
... walking with wonderful gentleness and caution , as if determined to get into no more mischief . When I arrived at the house where I was to dine , the good people stared at me with alarm - my hat crushed , my clothes covered with mud ...
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... walk a couple of miles to talk and pray with persons bewitched , ―persons who had to be sewed up in their beds because witches and the devil would pull off the bed clothes and pinch the poor bewitched till they were all over " dreadful ...
... walk a couple of miles to talk and pray with persons bewitched , ―persons who had to be sewed up in their beds because witches and the devil would pull off the bed clothes and pinch the poor bewitched till they were all over " dreadful ...
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... walking and preaching . I had to cross navigable rivers , some- times in stormy weather on dark winter mornings , and after crossing tramp six miles in deep snow before preaching the morning sermon ; occasionally to sleep in the houses ...
... walking and preaching . I had to cross navigable rivers , some- times in stormy weather on dark winter mornings , and after crossing tramp six miles in deep snow before preaching the morning sermon ; occasionally to sleep in the houses ...
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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.