The Living Age, Volume 264E. Littell & Company, 1910 |
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... Quaker by sight for twenty years , and had distrained upon his goods five times for church rates . It was by the purest chance in the world , the acci- dent of a copy of St. Augustine's Con- fessions in the original Greek having been ...
... Quaker by sight for twenty years , and had distrained upon his goods five times for church rates . It was by the purest chance in the world , the acci- dent of a copy of St. Augustine's Con- fessions in the original Greek having been ...
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... Quakers have had occasion to know ; it took an Act of Parliament to legalize your marital re- lations ) . " Hippisley nodded . " But the Church has never been extreme in the matter - has always leaned to the protection of the woman and ...
... Quakers have had occasion to know ; it took an Act of Parliament to legalize your marital re- lations ) . " Hippisley nodded . " But the Church has never been extreme in the matter - has always leaned to the protection of the woman and ...
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will reap your reward - elsewhere . " The old Quaker blinked in silence , still upon his feet , awaiting the de- layed departure of his visitor , who seemed to have something yet upon his mind , probably the usual something . Out it ...
will reap your reward - elsewhere . " The old Quaker blinked in silence , still upon his feet , awaiting the de- layed departure of his visitor , who seemed to have something yet upon his mind , probably the usual something . Out it ...
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... Quaker's Meeting House , Grace - church Street , twice every First Day , and again on Fourth Day forenoons at the mid - week meeting ( during which excursion the office was closed and locked ) , created what one may perhaps describe as ...
... Quaker's Meeting House , Grace - church Street , twice every First Day , and again on Fourth Day forenoons at the mid - week meeting ( during which excursion the office was closed and locked ) , created what one may perhaps describe as ...
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... Quaker spinsters observed , pitied , and remarked . But now , since February was out , they per- ceived that these deficiencies had been remedied . A new needle , swift and competent , was at work . The recip- ient of these daily ...
... Quaker spinsters observed , pitied , and remarked . But now , since February was out , they per- ceived that these deficiencies had been remedied . A new needle , swift and competent , was at work . The recip- ient of these daily ...
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Page 234 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 412 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 393 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 234 - But whoso hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Page 207 - At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a flutter'd bird, came flying from far away: "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!
Page 393 - Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them ; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Page 616 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.
Page 202 - By me o'r thee, as justments to the dead, Forgive, forgive me ; since I did not know Whether thy bones had here their rest, or no. But now 'tis known, behold, behold, I bring Unto thy ghost th...
Page 42 - That peck along the road, regard him not. He travels on, and in his face, his step, His gait, is one expression; every limb, His look and bending figure, all bespeak A man who does not move with pain, but moves With thought. - He is insensibly subdued To settled quiet: he is one by whom All effort seems forgotten, one to whom Long patience hath such mild composure given, That patience now doth seem a thing, of which He hath no need.
Page 444 - To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other : — that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at cards : that...