The Peerage of Poverty: Or, Learners and Workers in Fields, Farms, and FactoriesS. W. Partridge, 1870 - 493 pagina's |
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... Night in a Workhouse - Pen and Press - A Lover of Nature - Thom the Weaver - A Picture of Misery -How Jeannie Died - Flute Playing - Estimate of Thom - Brothers Bethune - Stonebreaking - Poetry- Learning to Read - Secret Writing - John ...
... Night in a Workhouse - Pen and Press - A Lover of Nature - Thom the Weaver - A Picture of Misery -How Jeannie Died - Flute Playing - Estimate of Thom - Brothers Bethune - Stonebreaking - Poetry- Learning to Read - Secret Writing - John ...
Pagina 1
... night was deepening , and some drops of rain were falling , as I left my inn , to stroll through the streets . By the Town Hall , a little company was gathered round a man , whom I supposed at first sight to be a mere " Cheap Jack ...
... night was deepening , and some drops of rain were falling , as I left my inn , to stroll through the streets . By the Town Hall , a little company was gathered round a man , whom I supposed at first sight to be a mere " Cheap Jack ...
Pagina 16
... night in which her husband died alone by the side of the body , with her Bible in her hand ; and how the little lad just learnt to read , and especially sat whole evenings reading the Bible to his grandfather , while the old man recited ...
... night in which her husband died alone by the side of the body , with her Bible in her hand ; and how the little lad just learnt to read , and especially sat whole evenings reading the Bible to his grandfather , while the old man recited ...
Pagina 18
... night in prayer , and I felt myself more in the presence of God and nearer to Him than I had ever done before . I felt He heard every word I uttered , and soon had the strong assurance that now , since my father and mother were dead ...
... night in prayer , and I felt myself more in the presence of God and nearer to Him than I had ever done before . I felt He heard every word I uttered , and soon had the strong assurance that now , since my father and mother were dead ...
Pagina 29
... night he arrived home , and had to endure a thorough good beating for his romantic excursion . This was not pleasant , but he often said that his real grief was that he had been unable to find the country where heaven and earth met ; he ...
... night he arrived home , and had to endure a thorough good beating for his romantic excursion . This was not pleasant , but he often said that his real grief was that he had been unable to find the country where heaven and earth met ; he ...
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Pagina 410 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Pagina 128 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher, too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge.
Pagina 161 - Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel ? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
Pagina 272 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Pagina 292 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Pagina 367 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! ENDYMION.
Pagina 299 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Pagina 369 - COME, see the Dolphin's anchor forged! 'tis at a white heat now — The bellows ceased, the flames decreased; though, on the forge's brow, The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound. And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round; All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare. Some rest upon their sledges here, some work the windlass there.
Pagina 46 - I AM ! yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes...
Pagina 404 - Dutch settlement, was not, as might have been expected, in the best order; the apartment had not been regularly ventilated, and, either from this circumstance, or already affected by the fatal sickness peculiar to Batavia, Leyden, when he left the place, had a fit of shivering, and declared the atmosphere was enough to give any mortal a fever. The presage was too just; he took his bed, and died in three days, on the eve of the battle which gave Java to the British empire.