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Page 74
... labour fed his fortune ! They were to him not his " hands , " but his people , his dependants , his children . They had heads , and hearts , and stomachs as well as " hands ; " and he took care to remember this , and , as far as in him ...
... labour fed his fortune ! They were to him not his " hands , " but his people , his dependants , his children . They had heads , and hearts , and stomachs as well as " hands ; " and he took care to remember this , and , as far as in him ...
Page 84
... labour ; but he was of a strong constitution , and he recovered this in time . She , trembling , wasted , attenuated , with scarcely breath or spirits left to enjoy the air and sun to which she was at last restored . The air chilled ...
... labour ; but he was of a strong constitution , and he recovered this in time . She , trembling , wasted , attenuated , with scarcely breath or spirits left to enjoy the air and sun to which she was at last restored . The air chilled ...
Page 87
... labour , and so we are quits . It's their own fault improvident rascals ! Why don't they lay by against a rainy day ? Why , Mr. Du Chastel , you astonish me with such notions as yours , we should all be in the Gazette in six months ( as ...
... labour , and so we are quits . It's their own fault improvident rascals ! Why don't they lay by against a rainy day ? Why , Mr. Du Chastel , you astonish me with such notions as yours , we should all be in the Gazette in six months ( as ...
Page 89
... labour ; and he was not long in calculating the great loss which arose from the time , small as it then was , allotted to recreation and rest . Would it not be possible to abridge this ? And yet it was true his hands laboured night and ...
... labour ; and he was not long in calculating the great loss which arose from the time , small as it then was , allotted to recreation and rest . Would it not be possible to abridge this ? And yet it was true his hands laboured night and ...
Page 90
... labour . How the enactment was to be the ruin of trade , and with it , forsooth , the miserable victims who were half , and only half , fed by that trade . Let us not forget the difficulties with which the Ten Hours ' Bill had to con ...
... labour . How the enactment was to be the ruin of trade , and with it , forsooth , the miserable victims who were half , and only half , fed by that trade . Let us not forget the difficulties with which the Ten Hours ' Bill had to con ...
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Page 299 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Page 299 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 19 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 217 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 209 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 233 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Page 266 - From each she nicely culls with curious toil And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box; The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Page 187 - So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy.
Page 68 - He cast a look of despair around him. " When I reflect that if it had but been last year that consent was given, and that now I should have been there, and should already have satiated myself with Italy — that I should have been safely landed there, and it would have been useless to recall me — that I should there have learned that which, if not learned, what is art ? That I should have become what I feel I might, and now never can become ; for time, inexorable time, the golden years of my youth,...
Page 232 - But you will be wearied with this sad and monotonous subject. I thought to have followed in detail, the long struggles of this arduous existence, and the gradual advance of Evelyn in that path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.