Family walking sticks; or, Prose portraits of my relations [ed. by M. Mogridge].1864 |
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appearance ash plant aunt Hester beautiful Bible blackthorn brother Bernard C. L. BALFOUR called Calvary carries a walking-stick carved cheerful Cloth coach coppice cottage cousin Caleb ebony ebony-hooked cane Edition Eight Engravings Elihu Burritt eyes family walking-sticks father favourite ferrule Fifth Thouſand flowers fond George Mogridge gold gold-headed Malacca grandfather grandmother grasped great-uncle Grinling Gibbon hand hazel stick head heard heart heaven Herbert highwayman holly bush holly stick Holy honeysuckle Illuftrations J. H. WILSON J. T. Barr J. W. Kirton jointed bamboo kind lean London look Lord Masulla Mazal mother never Newfoundland dog oak staff OLD HUMPHREY once palanquin Paternofter Row Penang pleasure poor poppies portmanteau quarterstaff round S. W. PARTRIDGE SAM ADAMS ſtory tail tale things thou thought thousand Tilbury Fort told tree uncle visited walk abroad young youth Zarephath
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 3 - Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: and join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Seite 68 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Seite 27 - JERUSALEM ! my happy home ! Name ever dear to me ! When shall my labours have an end, In joy, and peace, and thee ? 2 When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls And pearly gates behold ? Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong, And streets of shining gold...
Seite 5 - Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Seite 109 - Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof : and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry : for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Seite 98 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Seite 80 - THROUGH all the changing scenes of life, In trouble and in joy ; The praises of my God shall still My heart and tongue employ.
Seite 126 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Seite 71 - I mention this, to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation, for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsules, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Seite 33 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark, First sported in (hy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.