Ringstead Abbey; Or The Stranger's Grave; with Other Tales

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Hurst, Chance, 1830 - 441 páginas
 

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Página 225 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Página 248 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Página 22 - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Página 321 - Call me not Naomi, but Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt bitterly with me. I went out full, and am returned empty.
Página 265 - a well of water springing up." So with us. If we are going on with Him we shall be "troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; cast down, but not destroyed
Página 13 - ... social position for Prue's sake. There was no girl like her in Rockingham County. When he bought Willowbrook, a spacious house with grounds and outbuildings, a mile from the town, she sat at the head of his table like a lady as she was, for she had honest New England blood in her veins. That Prudence was as dear to him as if she had been his own daughter, he fully believed ; but how completely she had curled about his heart, like a vine, he did not discover until his nephew, John Dent, fell in...
Página 353 - I was under a cloud — heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning — I know I shall go up singing — read it again.
Página 59 - BLOODGOOD. Really, Mr. Badger, I am at a loss to understand you. Do you mean to insinuate that this seguedilla applies in any way to me?
Página 337 - He only is rich in friends who calculates them by their worth, and not by their number.
Página 55 - ... who will one day judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. Mean-time, his judgments are a great depth, and his ways past our finding out. But still we are perfectly as-sured, that the Judge of all the earth will do, and at present does, what is perfectly right, as that great day shall fully declare. He will not punish the son for the iniquity of the father, nor the father for the son, but the soul alone that sinneth shall die, as is plainly delineated in the Evening Lesson.

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