Good WordsA. Strahan and Company, 1879 |
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Page 21
... manse . Not a tree , not even a bush higher than heather , is to be seen . Peat , and water , and - rock ; rock , and water , and peat - that is North Uist . The neighbourhood of Loch- maddy , which is the residence of a sheriff ...
... manse . Not a tree , not even a bush higher than heather , is to be seen . Peat , and water , and - rock ; rock , and water , and peat - that is North Uist . The neighbourhood of Loch- maddy , which is the residence of a sheriff ...
Page 57
... MANSE OF FEARNAVOIL , WITH THE MINISTER AND THE MINISTER'S WIFE . FEA EARNAVOIL was a wide Highland parish boasting much romantic scenery and great opportunities for sport . It was thus liable to attract , in spite of its remote- ness ...
... MANSE OF FEARNAVOIL , WITH THE MINISTER AND THE MINISTER'S WIFE . FEA EARNAVOIL was a wide Highland parish boasting much romantic scenery and great opportunities for sport . It was thus liable to attract , in spite of its remote- ness ...
Page 58
... manse windows would have had a glorious view , as far as its windings would allow , down the steep , narrow Pass , at its base waving with natural wood - oak , birch , and pine , only cleared to fill the reigning laird of Drum- chatt's ...
... manse windows would have had a glorious view , as far as its windings would allow , down the steep , narrow Pass , at its base waving with natural wood - oak , birch , and pine , only cleared to fill the reigning laird of Drum- chatt's ...
Page 59
... manse ; for the straight - lined kirk and green hillocky kirkyard , stuck thick with mossy stones , upright or just out of the perpen- dicular , like almonds in a hedgehog cake , lay a little beyond the manse , in a final bend of the ...
... manse ; for the straight - lined kirk and green hillocky kirkyard , stuck thick with mossy stones , upright or just out of the perpen- dicular , like almonds in a hedgehog cake , lay a little beyond the manse , in a final bend of the ...
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... manse drawing - room , as well as in the drawing - rooms of neighbouring lairds and visitors . After all , these were not huge enormities by way of recreation ; but the more rigid and scrupulous of Mr. Macdonald's parishioners , who ...
... manse drawing - room , as well as in the drawing - rooms of neighbouring lairds and visitors . After all , these were not huge enormities by way of recreation ; but the more rigid and scrupulous of Mr. Macdonald's parishioners , who ...
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Page 13 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 13 - And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people ? why is it that thou hast sent me ? for since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people ; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
Page 457 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 541 - I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am ! Who will deliver me from this body of death...
Page 300 - And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day ? And he said, Yea, I know it ; hold ye your peace.
Page 230 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from «• following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 304 - Behold my servant, whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth ; I have put my spirit upon him : he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Page 301 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 141 - Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Page 371 - Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see : She has deceived her father, and may thee.