One Look BackW. Gardner, Darton & Company, Limited, 1911 - 368 páginas |
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... dinners to the sick and aged poor ; then we went on to reading hymns and bits of Bible to the blind and unlettered . As soon as we were old enough , we became teachers in Sun- day schools , and conducted classes and cottage meetings ...
... dinners to the sick and aged poor ; then we went on to reading hymns and bits of Bible to the blind and unlettered . As soon as we were old enough , we became teachers in Sun- day schools , and conducted classes and cottage meetings ...
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... dinner , he was a most delightful host , and threw off all magisterial awfulness as easily as his gown . His conversation was full of fun and sprightliness , and he could talk " Cricket - shop , " an- cient and modern , like Lillywhite ...
... dinner , he was a most delightful host , and threw off all magisterial awfulness as easily as his gown . His conversation was full of fun and sprightliness , and he could talk " Cricket - shop , " an- cient and modern , like Lillywhite ...
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... dinner . All that we saw and heard in Chapel confirmed what we were told . We saw the bowed form , the clasped hands , the rapt gaze , as of a man who in worship was really solus cum Solo , and not , as the manner of some of his ...
... dinner . All that we saw and heard in Chapel confirmed what we were told . We saw the bowed form , the clasped hands , the rapt gaze , as of a man who in worship was really solus cum Solo , and not , as the manner of some of his ...
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... dinner . Enough has now been said about the Chapel and its memories . I must now turn to lighter themes . I remember once hearing Mrs. Procter , who was born in 1799 and died in 1888 , say casually at a London dinner - party , when ...
... dinner . Enough has now been said about the Chapel and its memories . I must now turn to lighter themes . I remember once hearing Mrs. Procter , who was born in 1799 and died in 1888 , say casually at a London dinner - party , when ...
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... dinner , we sat in an awe - struck si- lence , while the Vaughans , knowing the hour at which the last train from Scotland came in , and the length of time which it took to drive from the station , listened with ears erect . Presently ...
... dinner , we sat in an awe - struck si- lence , while the Vaughans , knowing the hour at which the last train from Scotland came in , and the length of time which it took to drive from the station , listened with ears erect . Presently ...
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Página 153 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Página 92 - Or will you, youths of England, make your country again a royal throne of kings; a sceptred isle,* for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace...
Página 8 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Página 45 - There is a spot in the churchyard, near the footpath, on the brow of the hill looking towards Windsor, and a tomb under a large tree (bearing the name of Peachie, or Peachey), where I used to sit for hours and hours when a boy. This was my favourite spot...
Página 92 - There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. We are still undegenerate in race; a race mingled of the best northern blood.
Página 180 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Página 106 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Página 232 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Página 328 - Let no man think that sudden in a minute all is accomplished and the work is done; — Though with thine earliest dawn thou shouldst begin it scarce were it ended in thy setting sun.
Página 104 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget that we are gentlemen.