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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... efforts - no less for usefulness than for life — we see a correct translation of Longfellow's Latin into the manly vernacular of Burns— " Man's a sodger , And life's but a faught . " To his case , in the stern preparation for the ...
... efforts - no less for usefulness than for life — we see a correct translation of Longfellow's Latin into the manly vernacular of Burns— " Man's a sodger , And life's but a faught . " To his case , in the stern preparation for the ...
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... efforts so roused the Chairman that he lost both patience and temper - imperatively exclaiming , ' Sit down , Sir ... effort and success which , under God's blessing , led , and is still leading , to increasing usefulness . The incident ...
... efforts so roused the Chairman that he lost both patience and temper - imperatively exclaiming , ' Sit down , Sir ... effort and success which , under God's blessing , led , and is still leading , to increasing usefulness . The incident ...
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... effort to give me a few weeks at the school was not fruit- less . I should have been thankful , and perhaps I was , but I was sorrowful too . Of this I am sure , I was anxious to retain what I had received of the ability to read . This ...
... effort to give me a few weeks at the school was not fruit- less . I should have been thankful , and perhaps I was , but I was sorrowful too . Of this I am sure , I was anxious to retain what I had received of the ability to read . This ...
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... efforts were to pay off whatever debts had been contracted by his father during this illness . And scarcely had he gained this laudable object , and returned to the night - school as before , when labour generally , and weaving ...
... efforts were to pay off whatever debts had been contracted by his father during this illness . And scarcely had he gained this laudable object , and returned to the night - school as before , when labour generally , and weaving ...
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... effort having failed , another must be made . Only think of living within the means on less than five shillings a week ! And yet it must be done . House - rent was out of the question . I found the school - house rent quite enough ...
... effort having failed , another must be made . Only think of living within the means on less than five shillings a week ! And yet it must be done . House - rent was out of the question . I found the school - house rent quite enough ...
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able Alyth anxious assistance beautiful became become blessed Brechin Broughty Ferry called cause CHAPTER cheering CHRISTIAN UNION Church Congregational Church connection Darlington dear desire Dundee duties earnest Edinburgh efforts entered especially Evangelistic evident faith father favoured fear feeling felt gave GEORGE GILFILLAN give glad greatly happy heart heartily hence Hillocks hope incidents interest J. H. Wilson Jesus kind kindly knew labour lectures letter literary societies live Lochee London Lord Kinnaird Luthermuir Macrae Maggie manifested matter maun meet mental culture mind minister moral morning nature newspaper noble parents pastor poet poor Poor Law Board poverty pupils rejoice says Scotland seen soon soul speak spirit St Pancras struggling suffering Sunday teacher teaching tell things thought told truth valuable Waverley Station wayside flower words workhouse
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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...