Stories for the Middle Ranks of Society and Tales for the Common People, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 |
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Page 251
... Dick Guzzle the smith . Dick never works above two or three days in the week , and spends the others at the Red Lion . He swore , that if the farmer did not give him as much liquor as he liked at roof - raising , he would not strike ...
... Dick Guzzle the smith . Dick never works above two or three days in the week , and spends the others at the Red Lion . He swore , that if the farmer did not give him as much liquor as he liked at roof - raising , he would not strike ...
Page 252
... Dick would not come into it , and lost most of his work in consequence . Farmer White's labourers were often complaining , that things were so dear that they could not buy a bit of meat . He knew it was partly true , but not entirely ...
... Dick would not come into it , and lost most of his work in consequence . Farmer White's labourers were often complaining , that things were so dear that they could not buy a bit of meat . He knew it was partly true , but not entirely ...
Page 405
... Dick , who was far the best of Giles's bad boys . Dick was loitering about in a field behind the par- son's garden in search of a hen's nest , his mother having ordered him to bring home a few eggs that night , by hook or by crook , as ...
... Dick , who was far the best of Giles's bad boys . Dick was loitering about in a field behind the par- son's garden in search of a hen's nest , his mother having ordered him to bring home a few eggs that night , by hook or by crook , as ...
Page 406
... Dick ; and he told him he had got some pretty easy work for him . Dick did as he was bid ; he willingly went to work , and readily began to plant his beans with dispatch and regularity , according to the directions given him . While the ...
... Dick ; and he told him he had got some pretty easy work for him . Dick did as he was bid ; he willingly went to work , and readily began to plant his beans with dispatch and regularity , according to the directions given him . While the ...
Page 407
... Dick , and began to scold him for working for the stingy old parson ; for Giles had a natural antipathy to whatever belonged to the church . " What has he promised " thee a - day ? " said he ; " little enough " I dare say . " — " He is ...
... Dick , and began to scold him for working for the stingy old parson ; for Giles had a natural antipathy to whatever belonged to the church . " What has he promised " thee a - day ? " said he ; " little enough " I dare say . " — " He is ...
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Page 214 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 344 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 47 - John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 30 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 235 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 172 - Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon.
Page 15 - ... according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.
Page 12 - I have led but a lonely life, and have often had but little to eat, but my Bible has been meat, drink, and company to me, as I may...
Page 260 - But thou, when thou makest a feast, call the blind, and the lame, and the halt : they cannot recompense thee ; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 305 - ... while religion has no power in their hearts. But I ' hope better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though I thus speak.