Amy Thornton; Or, The Curate's DaughterNicholson, 1862 - 382 pàgines |
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Pàgina 257 - WHENE'ER I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see ! What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me ? Not more than others I deserve, Yet God has given me more ; For I have food, while others starve, Or beg from door to door.
Pàgina 100 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Pàgina 351 - I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well. I do not like thee. Doctor Fell!
Pàgina 139 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Pàgina 156 - heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked -" and yet, strangely enough, believing this, they place implicit trust in those they appoint to this or that function.
Pàgina 173 - Each hour a mercenary crowd With richest proffers strove ; Among the rest young Edwin bow'd, But never talk'd of love. " In humble, simplest habit clad, No wealth nor power had he ; Wisdom and worth were all he had, But these were all to me.
Pàgina 86 - It is his earnest desire to fight the good fight of faith, and to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. To ask for victory and rest from a mere love of selfish ease, is inconsistent with his principles and feelings. God has called him to the contest, and when he sees fit will call him to his reward; till then he is willing to wait and toil and struggle on. His prayer...
Pàgina 165 - ... in the eyes of the world, and especially in the eyes of his wife.
Pàgina 186 - It is a long time since I last wrote to you, but off and on I have written to Schreiner and no doubt he has shown you my letters.
Pàgina 182 - ... he was as happy as it was possible for him to be ; and he fell asleep sooner even than his wife.