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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Stran xi
... soon conquered by sheer persistence . And here we have the key - note to all that follows the effort and success which , under God's blessing , led , and is still leading , to increasing usefulness . The incident is slight in itself ...
... soon conquered by sheer persistence . And here we have the key - note to all that follows the effort and success which , under God's blessing , led , and is still leading , to increasing usefulness . The incident is slight in itself ...
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... soon found . As a matter of course , he was put under a wet nurse . But she treated him very cruelly for nearly two years . Speaking from what he had afterwards heard from those who knew him in his infancy , he says , - " Her wilful ...
... soon found . As a matter of course , he was put under a wet nurse . But she treated him very cruelly for nearly two years . Speaking from what he had afterwards heard from those who knew him in his infancy , he says , - " Her wilful ...
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... his conversations with them , soon created in him the wish to be able to do like- wise . And this desire so greatly increased , that , of his own accord , he lessened his play - time ; so 19 Earlier Struggles to Learn,
... his conversations with them , soon created in him the wish to be able to do like- wise . And this desire so greatly increased , that , of his own accord , he lessened his play - time ; so 19 Earlier Struggles to Learn,
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... Soon I became the teacher's pet . He would pat me on the head and say , I would soon become the best scholar in his school . And then he had such a gem of a wife , who loved me as if I had been her own child - a mild woman , full of ...
... Soon I became the teacher's pet . He would pat me on the head and say , I would soon become the best scholar in his school . And then he had such a gem of a wife , who loved me as if I had been her own child - a mild woman , full of ...
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... soon transmitted this news to my parents ; but imagine my disappointment and grief when I was told there was no money to purchase the books , and that I must leave school , and give all my time to the pirn wheel ! But grief was somewhat ...
... soon transmitted this news to my parents ; but imagine my disappointment and grief when I was told there was no money to purchase the books , and that I must leave school , and give all my time to the pirn wheel ! But grief was somewhat ...
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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...