 | 1868 - 398 pages
...But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their Souls And Winter-pork with the least possible outlay Of salt and sanctity...Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac ; Rich in broad woodlands and in half-till'd fields. And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 104 pages
...the woods. Church-goers, fearful of the unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter...Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in half-tilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, The... | |
 | 1869 - 802 pages
...And here the poet fairly runs into moasur-od prose, and describes such people as " showing as little comprehension of Christian charity and love and duty, as if the Sermon on the Mount had been," etc. Well may he .say that " not such should be the homesteads of a land," and it is to a brighter... | |
 | 1869 - 834 pages
...And here the poet fairly mn3 into measured prose, and describes such people as " showing as little comprehension of Christian charity and love and duty, as if the Sermon on the Mount had been," etc. Well may he .say that " not such should bu the homesteads of a land," and it is to a brighter... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...of the woods. Church-goers, fearful of the unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pewrent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter...Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in halftilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...of the woods. Church-goers, fearful of the unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pewrent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter...Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in halftilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 316 pages
...the woods. Church-goers, fearful of the unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax nnd pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter...Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in half -tilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
...pulpit-tax aiid pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, thtii souls And winter pork with the least pos-able outlay Of salt and sanctity ; in daily life Showing...charity and love and duty, As if the Sermon on the Mourn had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in halltilled fields,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...the woods. Church-goers, fearful of the unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter...sanctity ; in daily life Showing as little actual com prehension Of Christian charity and love and duty. As if the Sermon on the Mount had been Outdated... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 pages
...unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, theusouls And winter pork with the least possible outlay Of...Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in halltilled fields, And yet so pinched and hare and com' fortless,... | |
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Church-goers, fearful of the unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter pork with the least possible outlay Of salt and sanctity... 
