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... passing vessel to our relief . It is for ever . At our very birth we were chained , naked , like Andromeda , to our rock in mid - ocean ; and no Perseus will ever appear to pity and deliver us . The links of ΙΟ Our Desert Islands.
... passing vessel to our relief . It is for ever . At our very birth we were chained , naked , like Andromeda , to our rock in mid - ocean ; and no Perseus will ever appear to pity and deliver us . The links of ΙΟ Our Desert Islands.
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... pass away— Not understood . O God ! that men would see a little clearer , Or judge less harshly when they cannot see ! O God ! that men would draw a little nearer To one another ! —they'd be nearer Thee , And understood . ' We are like ...
... pass away— Not understood . O God ! that men would see a little clearer , Or judge less harshly when they cannot see ! O God ! that men would draw a little nearer To one another ! —they'd be nearer Thee , And understood . ' We are like ...
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... pass that the dreariest , most desolate , and most awful isolation of which men have ever heard the loneli- ness and dereliction of the Cross — is issuing , and must issue , in the conquest and redemption of the world . III Our Highway ...
... pass that the dreariest , most desolate , and most awful isolation of which men have ever heard the loneli- ness and dereliction of the Cross — is issuing , and must issue , in the conquest and redemption of the world . III Our Highway ...
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... pass through the eerie shades of Deadman's Lane . And they alone can enter that darksome avenue with a song on their lips who are first assured of the absolute security of their best possessions . In one of the noblest passages of ...
... pass through the eerie shades of Deadman's Lane . And they alone can enter that darksome avenue with a song on their lips who are first assured of the absolute security of their best possessions . In one of the noblest passages of ...
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... pass , by the score and by the hundred . And he dies at last in the possession of friendships which can be numbered ... passes from Gethsemane to Golgotha John alone stands by the cross , and even he had wavered . And Jesus said unto ...
... pass , by the score and by the hundred . And he dies at last in the possession of friendships which can be numbered ... passes from Gethsemane to Golgotha John alone stands by the cross , and even he had wavered . And Jesus said unto ...
Contents
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The Prudentialities of Life | 46 |
The Face at the Window | 52 |
The Organist | 134 |
The Jackass and the Kangaroo | 140 |
Our Rubbishheaps | 147 |
Lifes Invisible Constabulary | 154 |
So many Beds in the Ward | 161 |
Part III | 169 |
The Law of the Lane | 171 |
A Tonic of Big Things | 178 |
Back Moves | 61 |
The Tireless Trudge | 70 |
Sunset on the Sea | 78 |
Part II | 87 |
Clean Bowled | 89 |
Mad Dogs and Mosquitoes | 96 |
On Falling in Love | 105 |
Ipecacuanha | 112 |
Seaside Lodgings | 120 |
The Cliffs of Dover | 128 |
Sermons and Sandwiches | 185 |
The Challenge of the Heights | 193 |
The Furniturevan | 201 |
On the Wisdom of Conducting Ones Own Funeral | 209 |
Our Better Halves | 216 |
The Conquest of the Poles | 224 |
Hatpins and Buttonhooks | 232 |
The Brow of the Hill | 239 |
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Popular passages
Page 159 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 65 - And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter : so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Page 201 - Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England— now!
Page 22 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
Page 22 - I forty stripes save one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfuluess, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness ; besides...
Page 146 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Page 229 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
Page 177 - Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned; 5 Youth shows but half. Trust God; see all, nor be afraid!