Our exemplars, poor and rich; or, Biographical sketches of men and women who have, by an extraordinary use of their opportunities, benefited their fellow-creatures, ed. by M.D. Hill1880 |
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Page 79 - Poor child ! thought I, what sorrow art thou like to have for thy portion in this world ! Thou must be beaten ; must beg ; suffer hunger, cold, nakedness, and a thousand calamities, though I cannot now endure the wind should blow upon thee...
Page 87 - Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile, Witty, and well employed, and like thy Lord Speaking in parables his slighted word, — I name thee not, lest so despised a name Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame...
Page 178 - Looking back now on that life of toil, I cannot but feel thankful that it formed such a material part of my early education; and, were it possible, I should like to begin life over again in the same lowly style, and to pass through the same hardy training.
Page 66 - Ghost, then would the tempter so provoke me to desire to sin that sin, that I was as if I could not, must not, neither should be quiet until I had committed it ; now no sin would serve but that. If it were to be committed by speaking of such a word, then I have been as if my mouth would have spoken that word, whether I would or no ; and, in so strong a measure was this temptation upon me, that often I have been ready to clap my...
Page 78 - I found myself a man encompassed with infirmities ; the parting with my wife and poor children, hath often been to me in this place, as the pulling the flesh from my bones ; and that not only because I am somewhat too fond of these great mercies, but also because I should have often brought to my mind the many hardships, miseries, and wants that my poor family was like to meet with, should I be taken from them ; — especially my poor blind child...
Page 74 - You must be had back again to prison, and there lie for three months following ; and at three months' end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service, arid leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if, after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm, or be found to come over again without special license from the king, you must stretch by the neck for it, I tell you plainly.
Page 329 - She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled, which is strange in an heiress — a girl of twenty — a peeress that is to be, in her own right — an only child, and a savante, who has always had her own way. She is a poetess — a mathematician — a metaphysician, and yet, withal, very kind, generous, and gentle, with very little pretension. Any other head would be turned with half her acquisitions, and a tenth of her advantages.
Page 63 - I wished with all my heart that I might be a little child again, that my father might learn me to speak without this wicked way of swearing...
Page 23 - ... to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him.
Page 187 - A heap of loose fragments, which had fallen from above, blocked up the face of the quarry ; and my employment was to clear them away. The friction of the shovel soon blistered my hands, but the pain was by no means very severe ; and I wrought hard and willingly, that I might see how the huge strata below, which presented so firm and unbroken a frontage, were to be torn up and removed.