Blake of Oriel

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F.V. White, 1899 - 311 pages
 

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Page 201 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 221 - THE Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said ' Am I your debtor ? ' And the Lord — ' Not yet : but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
Page 37 - ... to me that it would be a good thing to concentrate the new impulses in a single review — a tendenz review, in short.
Page 257 - Corey, but she had leaned her elbows on the table and covered her face with her hands, and he couldn't see her face.
Page 273 - ... also that nothing more would be said about the letter till the answer should come. Nor could she turn anywhere else for comfort. She did not dare to appeal to Paul himself. As regarded him, for the present she could only rely. on the assurance, which she continued to give herself, that she would not believe a word of the story that had been told her. But there was other wretchedness besides her own. She had undertaken to give Marie Melmotte's message to her brother. She had done so, and she must...
Page 41 - ... time, with the storm going on outside, and I looked at the rocks about us ; they were all written with those strange words that none of us could read. But you cannot think how beautiful it all was ! And late in the day, after the storm had cleared, the old man said : " ' We have lost our day's work ; but if you like to come with me I will show you something worth seeing ! ' " Then he made us climb just a little farther, and brought us to the crest of the mountain, and then he did show us something...
Page 207 - But what shall we do — what shall we do!" moaned the girl, hiding her face in her apron. " Stop that crying," demanded her brother, imperiously.
Page 166 - ... some seventy-five other advocates of Sovietism who traveled by steerage. Mr. Martens had to resign himself to the comforts still provided by a capitalistic state of society. Though he left us because our Government decided that he should go, he went not unwillingly, according*to all reports.
Page 241 - ... at Karia Ben Ouder, at Djouma — villages where there was no mosque at all, but whence none the less the voice of a priest dispersed its plaintive cry across the empty country of marigolds and asphodels, startling the white cow-birds and the storks. Warrisden fell to thinking of Tony Stretton. He struck a match, and looked at his watch. It was close upon the hour of dawn. Perhaps, just at this moment, by some village in that wild dark mountain country to the south-east, Stretton stirred in his...
Page 212 - seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care.

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