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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... means of living . Even yet , I think I see him at that weary loom , brave as ever , the peculiar clink of the rapid shuttle keeping time to the simple notes of a sea - ditty . When he was not so racked by pain , as he often was — when ...
... means of living . Even yet , I think I see him at that weary loom , brave as ever , the peculiar clink of the rapid shuttle keeping time to the simple notes of a sea - ditty . When he was not so racked by pain , as he often was — when ...
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... means of this favour he formed the acquaintance of more fortunate children , who went to school , and who could read and write . The knowledge of this , and his conversations with them , soon created in him the wish to be able to do ...
... means of this favour he formed the acquaintance of more fortunate children , who went to school , and who could read and write . The knowledge of this , and his conversations with them , soon created in him the wish to be able to do ...
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... means were within his reach . He had some- where met with this couplet- " Despair of nothing , good you would attain ; Unwearied diligence your point will gain . " These words would come to him again and again , especially when greatly ...
... means were within his reach . He had some- where met with this couplet- " Despair of nothing , good you would attain ; Unwearied diligence your point will gain . " These words would come to him again and again , especially when greatly ...
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... means with which to prosecute his studies . " This offer , " he says , " I gladly accepted , and laboured the harder that I might save as much money as would pay a month's board in advance , and thereby get to the school in the daytime ...
... means with which to prosecute his studies . " This offer , " he says , " I gladly accepted , and laboured the harder that I might save as much money as would pay a month's board in advance , and thereby get to the school in the daytime ...
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... means . 66 HIS FIRST INTRODUCTION TO SOCIETY . " This great and unfavourable change was brought about not so much by any special change in his own heart , as by other The lad was the same , but the circumstances became more powerful ...
... means . 66 HIS FIRST INTRODUCTION TO SOCIETY . " This great and unfavourable change was brought about not so much by any special change in his own heart , as by other The lad was the same , but the circumstances became more powerful ...
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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...