Memoir of Old Humphrey [pseud.]: With Gleanings from His Portfolio, in Prose and VerseReligious Tract Society, 1855 - 320 стор. |
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... readers . In launching on the wide ocean of literature , our author was dependent on any favourable current he might meet , rather than on any fixed course . Without long waiting to weigh the probabilities of success , and under the ...
... readers . In launching on the wide ocean of literature , our author was dependent on any favourable current he might meet , rather than on any fixed course . Without long waiting to weigh the probabilities of success , and under the ...
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... reader , until Thomas Brown was represented as attending the village church . The description that followed won every heart . " Again and again , on different evenings , was ' Thomas Brown ' read to the rustic throng , who listened with ...
... reader , until Thomas Brown was represented as attending the village church . The description that followed won every heart . " Again and again , on different evenings , was ' Thomas Brown ' read to the rustic throng , who listened with ...
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... amount of profit it has imparted is only known to Him who knoweth all things . It may be self - love that whispers in my ear the soothing conviction that some of my readers will value it none the less 4 ENTERS ON A LITERARY CAREER . 37.
... amount of profit it has imparted is only known to Him who knoweth all things . It may be self - love that whispers in my ear the soothing conviction that some of my readers will value it none the less 4 ENTERS ON A LITERARY CAREER . 37.
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... readers will value it none the less when they know that it fell from the pen of Old Hum- phrey . Such as it is , it will be influencing the thoughts , the words , and the deeds of many , when its author is no more . How truly may it be ...
... readers will value it none the less when they know that it fell from the pen of Old Hum- phrey . Such as it is , it will be influencing the thoughts , the words , and the deeds of many , when its author is no more . How truly may it be ...
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... readers . At first , he regarded it as a pure fiction , simply to be used as a medium of conveying his thoughts on whatever incidents of a useful and amusing kind might come under his notice ; but when his readers began to regard it as ...
... readers . At first , he regarded it as a pure fiction , simply to be used as a medium of conveying his thoughts on whatever incidents of a useful and amusing kind might come under his notice ; but when his readers began to regard it as ...
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Сторінка 127 - I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Сторінка 94 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Сторінка 19 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Сторінка 186 - When in the night I sleepless lie, My soul with heavenly thoughts supply ; Let no ill dreams disturb my rest, No powers of darkness me molest.
Сторінка 251 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Сторінка 119 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, Thou wilt not despise.
Сторінка 97 - And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Сторінка 153 - PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary : praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Сторінка 176 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Сторінка 118 - For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.