An Old Country House"The story of the plans and ambitions of two young people who are happily married and who finally acquire and fit up a little country house according to their own ideas. It is not only a most delightfully written story of country life but one of the most charming love stories of fiction. Beautifully illustrated with paintings in tint and color by Elizabeth Shippen Green."--Amazon.com. |
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Page 19 - And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken...
Page 19 - Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Page 18 - O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit : so wilt Thou recover me, and make me to live.
Page 17 - To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 61 - ... with his clean-shaven strong face and his whitening hair, would have dreamed that he cherished so profound a sentiment. He knew how the work of the station should be done, and during the next few days he kept a suspicious eye on his assistant. He saw very soon that he was painstaking and competent. The only fault he had to find with him was that he was brusque with the natives. "The Malays are shy and very sensitive,
Page 94 - Elizabeth. A Curious herbal containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physick. To which is added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in physick.
Page 137 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
Page 95 - Strictly speaking, as the reader must be aware, the mandrake will only grow under a gallows-tree, for it finds its most sustaining nutriment in the juices that drip and drip from the bodies of decayed murderers. Its fat, fleshlike root is said to be shaped like a man, but in this particular Perdita has been disappointed, as, indeed, Gerarde was before her. "I myselfe and my servannts also have digged up, planted and replanted verie many; and yet never could either perceive shape of man and woman...
Page 91 - Mars be in the mid heaven, for in those houses they delight; let the Moon apply to them by good aspect, and let her not be in the houses of her enemies; if you cannot well stay till she apply to them, let her apply to a planet of the same triplicity...
Page 18 - Shadow and sun, so too our lives are made Yet think how great the sun, how small the shade.