Red Snow and Other Parables from Nature: Third series, Part 98Bell and Daldy, 1861 - 187 pages |
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Page 103 - It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption ; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power ; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
Page 167 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 103 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed us all the days of our life, and we are crowned with glory and honour.
Page 144 - For myself, I venture confidently to look back thousands on thousands of generations, and I see an animal striped like a zebra, but perhaps otherwise very differently constructed, the common parent of our domestic horse, whether or not it be descended from one or more wild stocks, of the ass, the hemionus, quagga, and zebra.
Page 176 - You don't know the good when it comes to you, you dreary, motionless lump of ignorant matter ! Beggarly wanderers, indeed ! This to us, who are carried about by the breezes, and live in the clouds of the sky ! Dear us ! Who would lower themselves to your level by choice ? And beauty — you talk of beauty, as if we could find any here but what we bring ourselves. Fancy the beauty of dingy, dirty stuff like this earth of yours ! But, of course, you know no better ; and what is worse, you won't learn...
Page 92 - Thou waterest her furrows: thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof: thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. 12 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness...
Page 57 - THEY had been licked over hundreds of times by the same mother, had been brought up on the same food, lived in the same house, learnt the same lessons, heard the same advice, and yet how different they were! Never were there two kittens more thoroughly unlike than those two! The one, with an open, loving heart, which never could contain itself in its joy, but purred it out at once to all the world ; the other, who scarcely ever purred at all, and that never above its breath, let him be as happy or...
Page 111 - ... the strong man back from ease and enjoyment; from the disappointments which racked the tenderest and best emotions of their hearts ; from the chains of unjust oppression ; from the strife of parties and of tongues , from the weakness of their own souls, which left them a prey to evil imaginations from within and a thousand temptations from without ? Truly such life was but a weariness at the best : and " Oh for a Deliverer ! " was the cry that went up from each man's heart as his own particular...
Page 87 - That which thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shalt understand in the day of thy visitation: for there are many secrets of religion, which are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.
Page 101 - ... he not rejoice over that little, and wait, as we did, for more? Now that abundance has come, and we swell, triumphant in strength and in hope, why does he not share our joy in the present, and wait, in trust, as we do, for the future ripening change? Why does he always complain? Has he himself some master, who would fain reap where he has not sown and gather where he has not strawed, and who has no pity for his servants who strive?