Tales of the TownJames Burns, 1843 - 255 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... short time there would be a Mrs. Bradwell . This rumour , unlike most rumours of a similar kind , was in fact true . Millicent Roberts was the only child of an attorney in Preston , who , some few years younger than Henry , was ...
... short time there would be a Mrs. Bradwell . This rumour , unlike most rumours of a similar kind , was in fact true . Millicent Roberts was the only child of an attorney in Preston , who , some few years younger than Henry , was ...
Pagina 14
... short time the ladies of Preston , old and young , dis- covered that Mr. Stanley had discontinued his visits at Mr. Roberts's house ; and here a fresh source of conjec- ture was opened . Some said that he had been disap- pointed in her ...
... short time the ladies of Preston , old and young , dis- covered that Mr. Stanley had discontinued his visits at Mr. Roberts's house ; and here a fresh source of conjec- ture was opened . Some said that he had been disap- pointed in her ...
Pagina 18
... short time became the theme of conversation in the Preston tea - parties , where it was commented upon in different ways . One old lady , Mrs. Fretful , set it down to poverty ; another to eccentricity ; and a third , Mrs. Marles , who ...
... short time became the theme of conversation in the Preston tea - parties , where it was commented upon in different ways . One old lady , Mrs. Fretful , set it down to poverty ; another to eccentricity ; and a third , Mrs. Marles , who ...
Pagina 29
... short payne well borne , that bringes long ease , And layes the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleepe after toyle , port after stormie seas , Ease after warre , death after life , does greatly please . SPENSER . FOR three years nothing ...
... short payne well borne , that bringes long ease , And layes the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleepe after toyle , port after stormie seas , Ease after warre , death after life , does greatly please . SPENSER . FOR three years nothing ...
Pagina 33
... short time with Mr. Milles , when , after recounting to him all the sins he could remember to have committed against God and man , and expressing his sincere repentance for having so far fallen from baptismal purity , and his firm but ...
... short time with Mr. Milles , when , after recounting to him all the sins he could remember to have committed against God and man , and expressing his sincere repentance for having so far fallen from baptismal purity , and his firm but ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 215 - Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why ? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Pagina 192 - Hooker that he thought himself bound in conscience to believe all that she said ; so that the good man came to be persuaded by her " that he was a man of a tender constitution, and that it was best for him to have a wife, that might prove a nurse to him, such a one as might both prolong his life and make it more comfortable, and such a one she could and would provide for him, if he thought fit to marry.
Pagina 146 - I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ Himself, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof.
Pagina 81 - PERSOUN of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk That Cristes gospel gladly wolde preche ; His parischens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversite...
Pagina 157 - And the curate that ministereth in every parish church or chapel, being at home and not being otherwise reasonably hindered, shall say the same in the parish church or chapel where he ministereth, and shall cause a bell to be tolled thereunto a convenient time before he begin, that the people may come to hear God's Word and to pray with him.
Pagina 35 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
Pagina 238 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Pagina 194 - You are now a minister's wife, and must now so far forget your father's house as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners, for you are to know that a priest's wife can challenge no precedence or place, but that which she purchases by her obliging humility ; and I am sure places so purchased do best become them. And let me tell you, that I am so good a herald as to assure you that this is truth.
Pagina 252 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Pagina 193 - Cranmer, took a journey to see their tutor ; where they found him with a book in his hand (it was the Odes of Horace), he being then, like humble and innocent Abel, tending his small allotment of sheep in a common field, which he told his pupils he was forced to do then, for that his servant was gone home to dine, and assist his wife to do some necessary household business. When his servant returned and released him, then his two pupils attended him unto his house, where their best entertainment...