Three Centuries in North Oxfordshire

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B. H. Blackwell, 1902 - 270 páginas
 

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Página 191 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.
Página 110 - That Robert Lord Clive did at the same time render " great and meritorious services to his country.
Página 47 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 184 - Society was founded in 1808, and the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church in 1811.
Página 8 - Evenlode. The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.
Página 77 - ... being shut up, died himself of the plague ; till the nights, though much lengthened, are grown too short to conceal the burials of those that died the day before, people being thereby constrained to borrow daylight for that service ; lastly, till I: could find neither meat nor drink safe — the butcheries being everywhere visited, my brewer's house shut up, and my baker with his whole family dead of the plague.
Página 78 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 118 - But such instances can only be obtained in their writings : and these will survive when the British dominion in India shall have long ceased to exist, and when the sources which it once yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrance.
Página 55 - I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death ; but an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over the ocean of darkness. And in that also I saw the infinite love of God ; and I had great openings.
Página 53 - Whosoever feels not the warm gale and gentle ventilation of this spirit, though I feel his pulse, I dare not say he lives ; for truly without this, to me there is no heat under the tropic, nor any light, though I dwelt in the body of the sun.

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