Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An AutobiographyHarper & brothers, 1850 - 371 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... hope to make us Christians ; or , if we do return to the true fold , it will be as I returned , after long , miserable years of darkling error , to a higher truth than most of you have yet learned to preach . But those old Jewish heroes ...
... hope to make us Christians ; or , if we do return to the true fold , it will be as I returned , after long , miserable years of darkling error , to a higher truth than most of you have yet learned to preach . But those old Jewish heroes ...
Pagina 17
... hope , shall find out some day , that it is not wise to draft our missionaries from the offscouring of the ministry , and serve God with that which costs us nothing except the expense of providing for them beyond seas . " There was ...
... hope , shall find out some day , that it is not wise to draft our missionaries from the offscouring of the ministry , and serve God with that which costs us nothing except the expense of providing for them beyond seas . " There was ...
Pagina 21
... hope to him , as to the rest of the world , quite just and in- nocent of drawing away as much as possible of his neighbors ' custom . He failed , died — as so many small tradesmen do- of bad debts and a broken heart , and left us ...
... hope to him , as to the rest of the world , quite just and in- nocent of drawing away as much as possible of his neighbors ' custom . He failed , died — as so many small tradesmen do- of bad debts and a broken heart , and left us ...
Pagina 32
... hope , " till the weak flesh would bear no more ; and the noble spirit , unrecognized by the lord of the soil , returned to God who gave it . I seemed to see in his history a sad presage of my own . If he , stronger , more self ...
... hope , " till the weak flesh would bear no more ; and the noble spirit , unrecognized by the lord of the soil , returned to God who gave it . I seemed to see in his history a sad presage of my own . If he , stronger , more self ...
Pagina 48
... hope , " I said , sadly , " that if God intends me to rise , He will open the way for me ; perhaps the very strug- gles and sorrows of a poor genius may teach him more than ever wealth and prosperity could . " 66 True , Alton my boy ...
... hope , " I said , sadly , " that if God intends me to rise , He will open the way for me ; perhaps the very strug- gles and sorrows of a poor genius may teach him more than ever wealth and prosperity could . " 66 True , Alton my boy ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 283 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Pagina 29 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Pagina 344 - They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness : all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods : and ye are all the children of the most Highest.
Pagina 229 - Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home, Across the sands o
Pagina 344 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Pagina 368 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Pagina 229 - The Western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land; And never home came she.