The last of the old squires; a sketch by Cedric Oldacre1854 |
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... , Authority , is a common Bleffing to the Place he lives in ; Happiness grows under his Influence . " BUTLER'S Sermon , xii . 216. Upon the Love of our Neighbour . THE Laft of the Old Squires ; A SKETCH BY -The Old Squires •
... , Authority , is a common Bleffing to the Place he lives in ; Happiness grows under his Influence . " BUTLER'S Sermon , xii . 216. Upon the Love of our Neighbour . THE Laft of the Old Squires ; A SKETCH BY -The Old Squires •
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... common Talk was interlarded with Oaths , and the profane Manner of Speech , which was the Difgrace of CHARLES II.'s Days , was but too common in the Times of our Fore- fathers , and even yet is hardly extinct . " In longum tamen ævum ...
... common Talk was interlarded with Oaths , and the profane Manner of Speech , which was the Difgrace of CHARLES II.'s Days , was but too common in the Times of our Fore- fathers , and even yet is hardly extinct . " In longum tamen ævum ...
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... common Saying with him , and a truer Saying was never spoken , that " COUNTRY - SPORTS KEEP COUN- TRY - PEOPLE TOGETHER ! " It is a queer Thought of Old Fuller's , in his Sketch of " The true Gentleman , " but it has fome Pith in it ...
... common Saying with him , and a truer Saying was never spoken , that " COUNTRY - SPORTS KEEP COUN- TRY - PEOPLE TOGETHER ! " It is a queer Thought of Old Fuller's , in his Sketch of " The true Gentleman , " but it has fome Pith in it ...
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... common Sense , is the most uncommon of all Senfes , that served him always in fuch good Stead . As the Young confulted him , and the Old deferred to his Judgment , it was a common Saying with them both , that had the good old Man had ...
... common Sense , is the most uncommon of all Senfes , that served him always in fuch good Stead . As the Young confulted him , and the Old deferred to his Judgment , it was a common Saying with them both , that had the good old Man had ...
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... common Saying was , " GENTLE IS THAT GENtle does , " and he ftuck to it to the end . And a very pleasant Thing was it to see THE LAST OF THE OLD SQUIRES amongst his People , EARLE'S Micro- cofmography . A good old Man . P. 175 . En . v ...
... common Saying was , " GENTLE IS THAT GENtle does , " and he ftuck to it to the end . And a very pleasant Thing was it to see THE LAST OF THE OLD SQUIRES amongst his People , EARLE'S Micro- cofmography . A good old Man . P. 175 . En . v ...
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Page 46 - And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers...
Page 99 - Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Page 14 - Ill fares the land, to haft'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd.
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Page 35 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page vi - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 117 - No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
Page 99 - Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Page 100 - For those of the ancienter members of her communion, who have all along owned and contended for a strict conformity to her rules and sanctions, as the surest course to establish her, have been of late represented, or rather reprobated, under the inodiating character of high churchmen, and thereby stand marked out for all the discouragement that spite and power together can pass upon them; while...
Page 99 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...