The Crock of Gold, and Other TalesArthur Hall, Virtue, 1857 - 166 pages |
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affections aunt bailiff beauty better bless brother CHAPTER charity Charles Charles Tracy Charles's child comfort crock of gold dare daughter dearest dreadful Emmy eyes fancy father Fcap fear feelings fellow Finsbury Square fool friends girl give Grace hand happy head hear heard heart Heaven Henry Clements honest honour hope Hurstley innocent Jane Mackenzie Jeanie Mackie John Dillaway Jonathan Floyd Julian kind kindly knew Lady Dillaway live look Lord lovers Mammon MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER matter mind miserable morning mother murder neat tile never night once Oxton Phrenology Pike Island poor pray pretty Quarles rich Roger Acton round seemed shrewd Simon Jennings Sir John Sir Thomas sorrow soul spirit starve strange sweet Tamworth tell thank thee things thou thought Tracy trouble wealth wife William Elphinston wise wish woman word wretched
Popular passages
Page 29 - Israel, trust in the LORD, for with the LORD there is mercy : and with Him is plenteous redemption. 8. And He shall redeem Israel : from all his sins.
Page 58 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 106 - Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 29 - OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord : Lord, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O Lord, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee : therefore shalt thou be feared.
Page 53 - Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 67 - Manners (their latest noms de guerre will serve all nominative purposes as well as any other) had arrived at the same lowest level of female degradation by very different downward roads. Anna's father had been a country curate, unfortunate through life, because utterly imprudent, and neither too wise a man nor too good a one, or depend upon it his orphan could not have come to this: "Never saw I the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.
Page 157 - The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Page 122 - s nothing foreign in your face, Nor strange upon your tongue, You come not of another race. From baser lineage sprung ; No, brother ! though away you ran, As truant boys will do, Still true it is, young Jonathan, My fathers fathered you.
Page 157 - A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Page 98 - For love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man, when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries ; Fear he answers blow to blow ; future interest he...