Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 1Reaves and Turner, 1876 - Anecdotes |
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... tree , once teemed with the richest and noblest burthen . And though , together with its best fruits , it pushed out some hurtful suckers , receding every way from the mother plant ; crooked and mis- shapen if you will , and obscuring ...
... tree , once teemed with the richest and noblest burthen . And though , together with its best fruits , it pushed out some hurtful suckers , receding every way from the mother plant ; crooked and mis- shapen if you will , and obscuring ...
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... tree . Yet I am ashamed , and it makes my hair stand upright , to consider , how in this time my people have been vexed and polled by the vile execution of projects , patents , bills of conformity , and such like ; which besides the ...
... tree . Yet I am ashamed , and it makes my hair stand upright , to consider , how in this time my people have been vexed and polled by the vile execution of projects , patents , bills of conformity , and such like ; which besides the ...
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... tree of my own , casually blown down , in which mul- titudes of young roots had struck from the external crust , and had long maintained the tree in health from its own decomposition , besides which a new internal boll would have been ...
... tree of my own , casually blown down , in which mul- titudes of young roots had struck from the external crust , and had long maintained the tree in health from its own decomposition , besides which a new internal boll would have been ...
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... Tree of Life by feeding on which ' the just do live ; ' and that true Fiducia can rallel with Fidelitas : I mean , that true con- grow no faster than , but shoots up just pa- fidence towards God is adæquate to sincere and consciencious ...
... Tree of Life by feeding on which ' the just do live ; ' and that true Fiducia can rallel with Fidelitas : I mean , that true con- grow no faster than , but shoots up just pa- fidence towards God is adæquate to sincere and consciencious ...
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... trees in autumn . Even their best estimate is but a shadow , and that a preposterous one ; for it goes back faster than the shadow in the dial of Ahaz . If a rich man have four sons , the youngest or contemnedest must be the Priest ...
... trees in autumn . Even their best estimate is but a shadow , and that a preposterous one ; for it goes back faster than the shadow in the dial of Ahaz . If a rich man have four sons , the youngest or contemnedest must be the Priest ...
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Page 328 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 494 - I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
Page 100 - The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
Page 132 - And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Page 243 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Page 576 - People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures : — You might teach- making of shoes by lectures...
Page 298 - My health advances faster than my amusement. However, I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.
Page 336 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.
Page 398 - ... and otherwise made in vain: without this accomplishment, the natural expectation and desire of such a state were but a fallacy in nature: unsatisfied considerators would...
Page 525 - ... in the excess of clothes and diet than any other man ; and was indeed the original of all those inventions from which others did but transcribe copies. He had a great universal understanding, and could have taken as much delight in any other way, if he had thought any other as pleasant and worth his care. But he found business was attended with more rivals and vexations.