Essays and Remains of the Rev. Robert Alfred Vaughan, 2. kötetJ.W. Parker and Sons, 1858 |
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4. oldal
... body the soul of Cyril has unques- tionably transmigrated , is a living reality in lawn . It might not be pleasant to approach too nearly that ecclesiastical mud volcano , which , always growling and simmering , may explode in an ...
... body the soul of Cyril has unques- tionably transmigrated , is a living reality in lawn . It might not be pleasant to approach too nearly that ecclesiastical mud volcano , which , always growling and simmering , may explode in an ...
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... bodies and whip - like tails out into the most burning patch of gravel which they could find , and nestling together , as a further protection against cold , fell fast asleep again ; the buzzard , who considered himself lord of the ...
... bodies and whip - like tails out into the most burning patch of gravel which they could find , and nestling together , as a further protection against cold , fell fast asleep again ; the buzzard , who considered himself lord of the ...
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... body to its natural decay , and taken up its dwelling in the Christian church . In vain did the devotees of the past adorn its institutions with every ingenious fancy a fond regret could devise ; the flowers they wove could only make a ...
... body to its natural decay , and taken up its dwelling in the Christian church . In vain did the devotees of the past adorn its institutions with every ingenious fancy a fond regret could devise ; the flowers they wove could only make a ...
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... body . ' He reads with admiration the Life of Apollonius of Tyana , by Philostratus , which has recently appeared . He can probably credit most of the marvels recorded of that strange thaumaturgist , who , two hundred years ago , had ...
... body . ' He reads with admiration the Life of Apollonius of Tyana , by Philostratus , which has recently appeared . He can probably credit most of the marvels recorded of that strange thaumaturgist , who , two hundred years ago , had ...
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... body would be laid in the dust , and the divine spark within him set free , and lost in the Universal Soul . Porphyry entered his school fresh from the study of Aristotle . At first the audacious opponent of his master , he soon became ...
... body would be laid in the dust , and the divine spark within him set free , and lost in the Universal Soul . Porphyry entered his school fresh from the study of Aristotle . At first the audacious opponent of his master , he soon became ...
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141. oldal - mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean, Angels of rain and lightning! there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, ev'n from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height — The locks of the approaching storm.
341. oldal - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
94. oldal - The Sloth, in its wild state, spends its life in trees, and never leaves them but from force or accident. The Eagle to the sky, the Mole to the ground, the Sloth to the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life in suspense — like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop.
334. oldal - O cousin, let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.
339. oldal - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
95. oldal - Old wheat and beans blazing for twenty miles round ; cart mares shot; sows of Lord Somerville's breed running wild over the country ; the minister of the parish wounded sorely in his hinder parts ; Mrs. Plymley in fits. All these scenes of war an Austrian or a Russian has seen three or four times over ; but it is now three centuries since an English pig has fallen in a fair battle upon English ground, or a farmhouse been rifled, or a clergyman's wife been subjected to any other proposals of love...
73. oldal - I find traces of him in every particular of Chapter affairs ; and on every occasion where his hand appears, I find stronger reason for respecting his sound judgment, knowledge of business, and activity of mind ; above all, the perfect fidelity of his stewardship.
77. oldal - Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best!
70. oldal - Good girl ! now you may go.' She makes a capital waiter, I assure you. On state occasions, Jack Robinson, my carpenter, takes off his apron and waits too, and does pretty well ; but he sometimes naturally makes a mistake, and sticks a gimlet into the bread instead of a fork.'— Vol.
69. oldal - A manservant was too expensive ; so I caught up a little garden-girl, made like a milestone, christened her Bunch, put a napkin in her hand, and made her my butler. The girls taught her to read, Mrs. Sydney to wait, and I undertook her morals ; Bunch became the best butler in the county.