Keith's wife, Volume 3

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Page 293 - Hush! a voice from the far away! "Listen and learn", it seems to say, "All the tomorrows shall be as today." "All the tomorrows shall be as today.
Page 282 - La promptitude à croire le mal, sans l'avoir assez examiné, est un effet de l'orgueil et de la paresse: on veut trouver des coupables, et on ne veut pas se donner la peine d'examiner les crimes.
Page 266 - Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting — it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.
Page 186 - A PASTOR is the deputy of Christ for the reducing of man to the obedience of God. This definition is evident, and contains the direct steps of pastoral duty and authority. For first, man fell from God by disobedience. Secondly, Christ is the glorious instrument of God for the revoking of man.
Page 313 - Kemball' &c. BESIDES ESSAYS AND SHORT ARTICLES. ' " TEMPLE BAR " is sparkling and brilliant. It might command a constituency by its fiction alone, but it takes so much care of its more solid matter, that if there were no...
Page 282 - Notre sagesse n'est pas moins a la merci de la fortune que nos biens.
Page 176 - Headache or no headache, I suppose? I have sent my cousin Beatrix to sit with her — come in here a moment, please, I want to speak to you ;
Page 117 - On donne des conseils, mais on n'inspire pas la sagesse pour en profiter.
Page 118 - Margaret; or that occasionally she should put on her bonnet and walk part of the way...

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