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... going to work too soon after her lying - in , I fear ; for ' tis but a bleak coldish place , as you may see , sir , in winter , and sometimes the snow lies so long under the hill , that I can hardly make myself a path to get out and buy ...
... going to work too soon after her lying - in , I fear ; for ' tis but a bleak coldish place , as you may see , sir , in winter , and sometimes the snow lies so long under the hill , that I can hardly make myself a path to get out and buy ...
Page 33
... going to the house of my friend . If Mr. Johnson keeps his word in sending me the account of his visit to the shepherd's cottage , I shall be very glad to entertain my readers with it , and shall now conclude this first part . THE ...
... going to the house of my friend . If Mr. Johnson keeps his word in sending me the account of his visit to the shepherd's cottage , I shall be very glad to entertain my readers with it , and shall now conclude this first part . THE ...
Page 52
... going . 66 I have often been sorry to observe , " said Mr. Johnson , " that many who are reckoned de- cent , good kind of people , and who would on no account neglect going to church , yet seem to care but little in what frame or tem ...
... going . 66 I have often been sorry to observe , " said Mr. Johnson , " that many who are reckoned de- cent , good kind of people , and who would on no account neglect going to church , yet seem to care but little in what frame or tem ...
Page 53
... going into the presence of a great gentleman , or a lord , or the king ; and shall the King of Kings be treated with less respect ? Besides , one likes to see people feel as if going to church was a thing of choice and pleasure , as ...
... going into the presence of a great gentleman , or a lord , or the king ; and shall the King of Kings be treated with less respect ? Besides , one likes to see people feel as if going to church was a thing of choice and pleasure , as ...
Page 63
... going to make you rich but useful . " " Not rich , sir ! " cried the shepherd . " How can I ever be thankful enough for such blessings . And will my poor Mary have a dry thatch over her head ? and shall I be able to send for the doctor ...
... going to make you rich but useful . " " Not rich , sir ! " cried the shepherd . " How can I ever be thankful enough for such blessings . And will my poor Mary have a dry thatch over her head ? and shall I be able to send for the doctor ...
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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.