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Page 36
... dinners eaten with less appearance of thank- fulness . The shepherd and his wife then sat down with great seeming cheerfulness , but the children stood ; and while the mother was helping them , little fresh coloured Molly who had picked ...
... dinners eaten with less appearance of thank- fulness . The shepherd and his wife then sat down with great seeming cheerfulness , but the children stood ; and while the mother was helping them , little fresh coloured Molly who had picked ...
Page 37
... dinner very heartily ; when the barking of the great dog drew her atten- tion from her trencher to the door , and spy- ing the stranger , she cried out , " Look , fa- ther , see here , if yonder is not the good D gentleman ! " Mr ...
... dinner very heartily ; when the barking of the great dog drew her atten- tion from her trencher to the door , and spy- ing the stranger , she cried out , " Look , fa- ther , see here , if yonder is not the good D gentleman ! " Mr ...
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... dinner he would sit down Though a good deal ashamed , they thought it more respectful to obey the gentleman , who having cast his eye on their slender provisions , gently rebuked the shepherd for not having indulged himself , as it was ...
... dinner he would sit down Though a good deal ashamed , they thought it more respectful to obey the gentleman , who having cast his eye on their slender provisions , gently rebuked the shepherd for not having indulged himself , as it was ...
Page 42
... the matter over on the hill yonder , said I to myself , a good dinner is a good thing I grant , and yet it will be but cold comfort to me a week after to be able to say -to be sure I had a nice shoulder of mutton 42 THE SHEPHERD OF.
... the matter over on the hill yonder , said I to myself , a good dinner is a good thing I grant , and yet it will be but cold comfort to me a week after to be able to say -to be sure I had a nice shoulder of mutton 42 THE SHEPHERD OF.
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... dinner , thanks to the good gentleman , but then I am in debt - I had a rare dinner , that's certain , but the pleasure of that has long been over and the debt still remains . I have spent the crown , and now if any poor wife should be ...
... dinner , thanks to the good gentleman , but then I am in debt - I had a rare dinner , that's certain , but the pleasure of that has long been over and the debt still remains . I have spent the crown , and now if any poor wife should be ...
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Page 32 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 48 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 18 - ... according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.
Page 15 - I have led but a lonely life, and have often had but little to cat, but my Bible has been meat, drink, and company to me, as I may say, and when want and trouble have come upon me, I don't know what I should have done indeed, sir, if I had not had the promises of this book for my stay and support.
Page 14 - I believe there is no day for the last thirty years, that I have not peeped at my Bible. If we can't find time to read a chapter, I defy any man to say he can't find time to read a verse; and a single text sir, well followed and put in practice every day, would make no bad figure at the year's end...
Page 9 - Mr. Johnson, who delighted in good men and good things, was very well satisfied with his reply. For he justly thought that though a hypocrite may easily contrive to appear better than he really is, to a stranger, and that no one should be too soon trusted merely for having a few good words in his mouth; yet, as he knew that "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," he always accustomed himself to judge favorably of those who had a serious deportment and solid manner of speaking.
Page 11 - You think, then," said the gentleman, " that a laborious life is a happy one." — "I do, sir, and more so especially, as it exposes a man to fewer v sins. If king Saul had continued a poor laborious man to the end of his days, he might have lived happy and honest, and died a natural death in his bed at last, which you know, sir, was more than he did. But I...
Page 9 - ... the sky, that rain was at no great distance, accosted the shepherd with asking what sort of weather he thought it would be on the morrow. " It will be such weather as pleases me,
Page 41 - You must know, sir, that both of us, next to a sin, dread a debt, and indeed in some cases a debt is a sin ; but with all our care and pains, we have never been able quite to pay off the doctor's bill for that bad fit of rheumatism which I had last winter.