Life Struggles: an Autobiographic Record of the Earlier Trials and Later Triumphs of the Rev. James Inches HillocksJ.S. Marr, 1876 - 184 strani |
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... became an apprentice sailor , and was afterwards ' pressed ' into ' His Majesty's Service . ' At the peace , ' in 1815 , he was ' paid off ' - the best of his days — his robust health and remarkable strength - having passed away while ...
... became an apprentice sailor , and was afterwards ' pressed ' into ' His Majesty's Service . ' At the peace , ' in 1815 , he was ' paid off ' - the best of his days — his robust health and remarkable strength - having passed away while ...
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... became seriously ill , and died on the twenty - first day after I was born . " Who can tell the amount of sadness contained in the latter part of that brief statement ? To the busy world around , this was but a casual event , yet its ...
... became seriously ill , and died on the twenty - first day after I was born . " Who can tell the amount of sadness contained in the latter part of that brief statement ? To the busy world around , this was but a casual event , yet its ...
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... became as uncharitable as to suppose they knew I never would be " big " -- at least , they never sent for me . Yet the incident was not lost on me ; for though I did not get to America , I got to school . " That Seeing he could not ...
... became as uncharitable as to suppose they knew I never would be " big " -- at least , they never sent for me . Yet the incident was not lost on me ; for though I did not get to America , I got to school . " That Seeing he could not ...
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... became more and more interested in learning the elements of what is called school education . His description of his " first study " which he at this time occupied , is somewhat picturesque . He says , " Had you entered the village of ...
... became more and more interested in learning the elements of what is called school education . His description of his " first study " which he at this time occupied , is somewhat picturesque . He says , " Had you entered the village of ...
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... became so improved in health , that the family did not depend on my labours as before . And knowing my desire to get the aid of the living voice to tell me if my advances were genuine , he promised to give me sixpence per web - that is ...
... became so improved in health , that the family did not depend on my labours as before . And knowing my desire to get the aid of the living voice to tell me if my advances were genuine , he promised to give me sixpence per web - that is ...
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Stran 63 - No man practises so well as he writes. I have all my life long been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Stran 39 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Stran 73 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Stran 133 - ... hour ; It smiles in the sunshine, and weeps in the shower ; And the footstep falls on the wayside flower ! Now see, my dear child, in the wayside flower, The joys and the sorrows of life's passing hour ; The footstep of time hastens on in its power ; And soon we must fall like the wayside flower Yet know, my dear child, that the wayside flower Shall revive in its season, and bloom its brief hour ; That again we shall blossom in beauty and power, Where the foot never falls on the wayside flower...
Stran ii - expressing in one terse phrase, his energy as a man, and his hope as a Christian." Christian Word — " It is a story that ought to inspire young men in their wrestle with fortune in her sternest moods. " Arbroath Guide — " The account of Mr. Hillocks' life is interesting, and we recommend the book to the notice of young men especially.
Stran 133 - There's a moral, my child, in the wayside flower : There's an emblem of life in its short-Iiv'd hour ; It smiles in the sunshine, and weeps in the shower ; And the footstep falls on the wayside flower ! Now see, my dear child, in the wayside flower...