Days of My Age: Chimney Corner Chats for the Home CirclePriv. print., 1923 - 381 pages |
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... nature makes schoolmaster and school boy kin ? He had original ways of making his teaching " take hold . " It was perilous to yawn in one of his classes and sometimes when , on a drowsy afternoon , one would try to hide that tendency ...
... nature makes schoolmaster and school boy kin ? He had original ways of making his teaching " take hold . " It was perilous to yawn in one of his classes and sometimes when , on a drowsy afternoon , one would try to hide that tendency ...
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... nature is apt to resent too much steer- ing in any direction of a life work at that period of tasting independence . And so in my earlier years in COLLEGE SENIOR 1870 TRINITY COLLEGE , 1870 NIL OF CH [ 20 ] DAYS OF MY AGE.
... nature is apt to resent too much steer- ing in any direction of a life work at that period of tasting independence . And so in my earlier years in COLLEGE SENIOR 1870 TRINITY COLLEGE , 1870 NIL OF CH [ 20 ] DAYS OF MY AGE.
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... nature , and in a moment when , both in his own and the adjoining pew , somnolence seemed to reign , the challenge was met ; the queue was firmly clutched and tweaked with an instantaneous effect upon several staid family pews in that ...
... nature , and in a moment when , both in his own and the adjoining pew , somnolence seemed to reign , the challenge was met ; the queue was firmly clutched and tweaked with an instantaneous effect upon several staid family pews in that ...
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... nature had their ef- fects upon the Lay Readers themselves . And there was no lack of sampling sentiment , as well as presentiment for the parson , for such a feeling theme as " The Lay of a Lay Reader , " grave and gay . One earnest ...
... nature had their ef- fects upon the Lay Readers themselves . And there was no lack of sampling sentiment , as well as presentiment for the parson , for such a feeling theme as " The Lay of a Lay Reader , " grave and gay . One earnest ...
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... natural thought was to try to have them meet there for a service . Getting in touch with some of them I found an unexpected development . It seemed that they were not lacking in religion ; indeed the reason they had not been able of ...
... natural thought was to try to have them meet there for a service . Getting in touch with some of them I found an unexpected development . It seemed that they were not lacking in religion ; indeed the reason they had not been able of ...
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Days of My Age: Chimney Corner Chats for the Home Circle William Ford Nichols No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 315 - Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost Thy seven-fold gifts impart. Thy blessed unction from above, Is comfort, life, and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight.
Page 224 - Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.
Page 33 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm, And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow...
Page 372 - God, hast taught me from my youth up until now ; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. 16 Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
Page 340 - We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesns Christ ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
Page 325 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Page 329 - Thou waterest her furrows: thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof: thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. 12 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness...
Page 267 - Nova Albion, and that for two causes ; the one in respect of the white banks and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called.
Page 311 - And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient 'of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 298 - Together with all and singular, the appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining ; to have and to hold the above described goods and chattels, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, forever.