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Not a word, not a movement, for full three weeks. Then, with returning consciousness, a call for pen and paper. He would, he muttered with thickened speech, send a note to inform a certain John Wesley that the spirits had made known to him Wesley's desire to meet him, and that he would be glad to receive a visit at any time.
"And I set a special date for you to get here on purpose, because well, because I thought we ought to be here to receive you, and have the place look sort of homelike. It would be terrible, seems to me, to come back to a dark, deserted house that you'd left so long ago, and nobody here to to welcome you. Well, that's all, I guess. But Mrs.
Now for the plan I propose, and in the execution of which I will give you every assistance in my power. Madame Orio, although a woman of good station in life, is not wealthy, and she wishes to have her name entered on the list of noble widows who receive the bounties bestowed by the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament, of which M. de Malipiero is president.
His "Judgment of Jupiter" was much admired, but found no purchaser, nor did he receive any commissions for such large historical paintings as it was his ambition to produce. He was asked by a certain Mr.
"Ah, that's too bad. The missionary said night before last that we must pray if we expect to receive, didn't he?" "Yes, captain, he did." "And he told us more'n that, parson. He said that we couldn't expect to receive unless we gave." "Yes, he said that also." "And by jingo, he was right, too," and the captain brought his stick down upon the road with a bang.
Under this stone there was a vault, and when one looked at the moist walls, from which the water constantly trickled, and at the dark cell, which for six months had not been cheered by one ray of light, they might well suppose that the gravestone would soon be lifted, and the vault opened to receive the poor prisoner, upon whose grave no other tears would flow.
They held that May had received his death "by the hand of God." "All men receive death from the hand of God," said Septimus May, when the judicial inquiry was ended. "They receive life from the hand of God also. But, while bowing to that, there is a great deal more we are called to do when God's hand falls as it has fallen upon my son.
I am, Your Humble Servant, and great Admirer, George Trusty. Tower-hill, July 5, 1711. This careful Father and humble Petitioner hereafter mentioned, who are under Difficulties about the just Management of Fans, will soon receive proper Advertisements relating to the Professors in that behalf, with their Places of Abode and Methods of Teaching. July the 5th, 1711.
To recall her to life was my first duty; but I was powerless, or unacquainted with the means. I gazed upon her features, and endeavoured, by pressing her in my arms, to inspire her with some warmth. I looked towards the road, and listened for the wished-for sound of some carriage that might be prevailed on to stop and receive her.
"Yes, poor boy! when I found that you had turned him out." "I never turned him out, not till your house was open to receive him." "You would not have wished him to go into the poor-house?" "I did the very best for him. I kept him going when there was no one else to give him a shilling." "He must have had a bitter time," said the father. "I hope it may have done him good."
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