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And he was only one of eight thousand other Protestant Dissenters who died in prison during the merry, miserable reign of Charles II.! Of a truth, Dissent has something to forgive the Church; for persecution in Protestant England was very much the same as in Catholic France, with, if possible, less justification.
If he has houses on his land he has rent for them also, often receiving the value of the building many times over, and in the end house and land once more.
Something very curious has got hold of it. As you know, I avoid giving advice to my customers, and I'm not going to advise you; but if you will notice the state of affairs with regard to Snapshot Consolidated, you will see something that ought to make you open your eyes." "What is it?" "Didn't you read the market reports in this morning's papers?"
"Well, sir, seeing you put it in that way, sir," he confessed, almost as though in regret, "I hardly see how I can refuse. It is very flattering, sir." He drew up the other chair and sat down opposite me. "Would you care for a glass of wine first, sir?" he asked solicitously. "It has been a rather dusty ride."
"The poor impulsive creature has added sacrilege to her madness a sacrilege we are willing to believe she did not understand, for she escaped in a religious habit my own." "But this would sufficiently identify her," he said, controlling himself with an effort. "Alas, not so!
It has become a psychological curiosity to see how many different sermons can be evolved from that one text. I wonder sometimes if St. Paul would know himself in his modern attire. I am very glad that Maurice Mapleson did not accept my invitation to come to Wheathedge, to preach as a candidate. For listening to a candidate and listening to the Gospel are two very different things.
THE GROWTH OF INDEPENDENCE. Hitherto life has been to boys, as to girls, a dependent existence a sucker from the parent growth a home discipline of authority and guidance and communicated impulse. But henceforth it is a transplanted growth of its own a new and free power of activity in which the mainspring is no longer authority or law from without, but principle or opinion within.
Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief. Consider this matter thus: you have fine clothes; your neighbor has not; you have a window; you wish to air the clothes. The thief does not know wherein man's good consists, but he thinks that it consist in having fine clothes, the very thing which you also think. Must he not then come and take them away?
There is another class of men, an increasing class, it is to be feared, in this country, that of absolute unbelievers, with which this little work has properly no concern: but may the writer, sincerely pitying their melancholy state, be permitted to ask them one plain question?
'Yes, but no one could possibly understand that a prima donna just on the edge of decline could possibly wish to advertise a rising light. It is hardly human! 'I think she is the most good-natured woman I ever knew, said Margaret with conviction. 'She has a heart of gold. Her only trouble in life is that she has too much of it! There is enough for everybody.
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