The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes, 1. köideRobert Hall Baynes 1867 |
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... nature , irresistibly attracted towards mature age , while the old love to divert their minds from the matter - of - fact realities of their everyday exist- ence to the purple dreamland which smiles so alluringly before youthful hopes ...
... nature , irresistibly attracted towards mature age , while the old love to divert their minds from the matter - of - fact realities of their everyday exist- ence to the purple dreamland which smiles so alluringly before youthful hopes ...
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... natural affection . Those objects against which their envy seems principally directed are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old . " Our " oldest inhabitant " softens towards his neighbours , partly from his well ...
... natural affection . Those objects against which their envy seems principally directed are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old . " Our " oldest inhabitant " softens towards his neighbours , partly from his well ...
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... seems habi- tual to persons intimately connected with mortality in its last sombre scenes . In one village a gardener , the Andrew Fair- service of the neighbourhood , whose kindly human nature is THE OLDEST INHABITANT . 35.
... seems habi- tual to persons intimately connected with mortality in its last sombre scenes . In one village a gardener , the Andrew Fair- service of the neighbourhood , whose kindly human nature is THE OLDEST INHABITANT . 35.
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Robert Hall Baynes. service of the neighbourhood , whose kindly human nature is never liable to be frozen , unlike his spring cauliflowers , has long held the rank of " oldest inhabitant . " In another the postmaster attains this dignity ...
Robert Hall Baynes. service of the neighbourhood , whose kindly human nature is never liable to be frozen , unlike his spring cauliflowers , has long held the rank of " oldest inhabitant . " In another the postmaster attains this dignity ...
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... nature of things , outward forms will vary with the progress of the ages , yet that the spirit of the New Testament is the same that it ever was ; and that even when the end shall come , it will not change , but only cease to be ...
... nature of things , outward forms will vary with the progress of the ages , yet that the spirit of the New Testament is the same that it ever was ; and that even when the end shall come , it will not change , but only cease to be ...
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Page 598 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our Infant Redeemer is laid...
Page 315 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication...
Page 471 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Page 269 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men *. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them t.
Page 598 - Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall; Angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.
Page 474 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils...
Page 256 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 244 - Then so many as shall be partakers of the Holy Communion shall tarry still in the Quire, or in some convenient place near the Quire, the men on the one side, and the women on the other side.
Page 598 - Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gifts would His favour secure ; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
Page 251 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, ' Believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd,