Our Blue Jackets: A Narrative of Miss Weston's Life and Work Among Our Sailors

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1878 - 190 páginas
 

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Página 18 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Página 184 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
Página 78 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Página 62 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Página 178 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Página 164 - NOTHING resting in its own completeness Can have worth or beauty : but alone Because it leads and tends to farther sweetness, Fuller, higher, deeper than its own. Spring's real glory dwells not in the meaning, Gracious though it be, of her blue hours ; But is hidden in her tender leaning To the Summer's richer wealth of flowers. Dawn is fair, because the mists fade slowly Into Day, which floods the world...
Página 64 - And he commanded the steward of his house, saying. Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can earn,', and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money.
Página 139 - you'll like a little Devonshire cream in your coffee?" This carried the day Jack's eyes fairly danced in his head, as he said, " I've been round the Horn, and I don't know where beside, but it's a long day since I and Devonshire cream have met. Thank ye, missus, kindly," and he sat down to enjoy the first cup of coffee he had tasted for many a day.

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