Holiday PapersR. Hardwicke, 1864 - 431 pages |
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... interest on the toiling organization of the printing - house , in its daily throes of complicated parturition , than on the smooth - ironed sheet upon the breakfast- table not that he fails to appreciate the result ; not that he ...
... interest on the toiling organization of the printing - house , in its daily throes of complicated parturition , than on the smooth - ironed sheet upon the breakfast- table not that he fails to appreciate the result ; not that he ...
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... interest in the construc- tion of locomotives when you take a first - class ticket , or to sympathize with the perplexities of the engineer , while you lounge on a corner cushion of the express which flies over Chat- moss ; but when you ...
... interest in the construc- tion of locomotives when you take a first - class ticket , or to sympathize with the perplexities of the engineer , while you lounge on a corner cushion of the express which flies over Chat- moss ; but when you ...
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... interest , which brings no gain , but leaves him where he was . I do not refer to Sambo alone . Sambo enjoys himself ever so much more than Smith the overdriven artisan , who hammers or stitches hour after hour , year after year , at ...
... interest , which brings no gain , but leaves him where he was . I do not refer to Sambo alone . Sambo enjoys himself ever so much more than Smith the overdriven artisan , who hammers or stitches hour after hour , year after year , at ...
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... interest in his vocation . Take the professions , too . Can you conceive any post more trying than that of a cemetery chaplain ? It is said that he not unfrequently becomes insane . And no doubt the monotonous character of much work ...
... interest in his vocation . Take the professions , too . Can you conceive any post more trying than that of a cemetery chaplain ? It is said that he not unfrequently becomes insane . And no doubt the monotonous character of much work ...
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... interest in the value of experience . It came about thus . He had been reading the story of Peter Wilkins . When the ship , loaded with iron , had become quite fixed to the load- stone rock , and he had recovered from the first gush of ...
... interest in the value of experience . It came about thus . He had been reading the story of Peter Wilkins . When the ship , loaded with iron , had become quite fixed to the load- stone rock , and he had recovered from the first gush of ...
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Page 257 - PEACE be to this house, and to all that dwell in it. IT When he cometh into the sick man's presence, he shall say, kneeling down, REMEMBER not, LORD, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers ; Spare us, good LORD, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood ; and be not angry with us for ever.
Page 244 - I want is, that you should be able so far to put yourself out of the question, as to rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep.
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Page 119 - During the last century it has spread gradually over Asiatic Russia towards the north and east, always following the progress of cultivation. It made its first appearance on the Irtisch in Tobolsk, soon after the Russians had ploughed the land. It came in 1735 up the Obi to Beresow, and four years after to Naryn, about fifteen degrees of longitude farther east. In 1710 it had been seen in the higher parts of the course of the Lena, in the...
Page 35 - The natural (or merely worldly-wise) man, receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." They are "hid from the wise and prudent, and revealed unto babes...