Times and seasonsWilliam Mack, 1883 - 192 pages |
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... are the spring days of youth , lightly esteemed , sometimes utterly neglected ; but pregnant with life- long issues . B Look at the time spent at school . It is DEDICATION PREFACE CHAPTER YOUTHFUL PREPARATION FOR THE FUTURE.
... are the spring days of youth , lightly esteemed , sometimes utterly neglected ; but pregnant with life- long issues . B Look at the time spent at school . It is DEDICATION PREFACE CHAPTER YOUTHFUL PREPARATION FOR THE FUTURE.
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... Sometimes the reward may assume the form least expected . A clerk was directed by his employer to answer a letter countermanding a previous order for goods , by saying that they had been already shipped . It was false , and the clerk ...
... Sometimes the reward may assume the form least expected . A clerk was directed by his employer to answer a letter countermanding a previous order for goods , by saying that they had been already shipped . It was false , and the clerk ...
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... sometimes show itself when you least expect it . You think you have purged your nature of it , when suddenly it makes its appearance . You con- gratulate yourself on the change , till in an evil hour you are constrained to confess that ...
... sometimes show itself when you least expect it . You think you have purged your nature of it , when suddenly it makes its appearance . You con- gratulate yourself on the change , till in an evil hour you are constrained to confess that ...
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... sometimes illmated . Churlish husbands have amiable wives , as NABAL had ABIGAIL ; and patient men , like ALBERT DÜRER and good Bishop HOOKER , have wives anything but sweet and lovely . There are selfish and unfaithful husbands , and ...
... sometimes illmated . Churlish husbands have amiable wives , as NABAL had ABIGAIL ; and patient men , like ALBERT DÜRER and good Bishop HOOKER , have wives anything but sweet and lovely . There are selfish and unfaithful husbands , and ...
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... Sometimes , though not often , one meets with specimens of unmarried life more unlovely than mere selfishness ; old bachelors , hard and cruel , with all the milk of human kindness turned into gall ; old maids , like SMOLLETT's Tabitha ...
... Sometimes , though not often , one meets with specimens of unmarried life more unlovely than mere selfishness ; old bachelors , hard and cruel , with all the milk of human kindness turned into gall ; old maids , like SMOLLETT's Tabitha ...
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adversity affection beautiful blessedness blessing bright celibacy character child CHRIST Christian comfort dead dear death Divine DOUGLAS JERROLD duties dying earth earthly EDWARD IRVING endeavour eternal evil faith father fear feel friends give glory GOD's grave grief grow hand happiness hath heart heaven heavenly honour hope hour husband JEREMY TAYLOR JESUS JESUS CHRIST JOHN ANDERSON kingdom of heaven labour live look LORD marriage married MARY CARPENTER MATTHEW HENRY mind mother nature NEBUCHADNEZZAR never night NORMAN MACLEOD old age OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES pain parents perfect persons possession prayer present prosperity religion remember rest resurrection rich Sabbath says season sleep sometimes sorrow soul spirit strength success sweet teaches tender thee things THOMAS FULLER thou thought true truth unmarried unto voice WASHINGTON IRVING wealth weep wife wisdom wise woman words young youth
Popular passages
Page 175 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 123 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 18 - They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 176 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Page 99 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 84 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all ; and in thine hand is power and might ; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 175 - Lord, it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live ; To love and serve Thee is my share, And this thy grace must give.
Page 88 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Page 37 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Page 153 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...