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Updated: May 23, 2025
Those great rocking-stones down in Cornwall stand unmoved by any tempest, but a child's finger, laid on the right place, will set them vibrating. And so the heavy, hard, stony bulk of our hearts lies torpid and immovable, until He lays His loving finger upon them, and then they rock at His will. There is no keeping of Christ's commandments without love.
The next morning was neither too hot nor too cold, and they set out on their little party of pleasure; the children went with their mother, to their great delight, in the sociable; and Mr. Vincent, to his great delight, rode with Belinda. When they came within sight of the Crags, Mr. Percival, who was riding with them, exclaimed "What is that yonder, on the top of one of the great rocking-stones?"
The mind of England's Elizabeth, if somewhat shaken by the agitating interview to which she had just put a period, was of that firm and decided character which soon recovers its natural tone. It was like one of those ancient druidical monuments called rocking-stones.
The mind of England's Elizabeth, if somewhat shaken by the agitating interview to which she had just put a period, was of that firm and decided character which soon recovers its natural tone. It was like one of those ancient Druidical monuments called Rocking-stones.
The archer of Sherwood who could barely stand King Edward's buffet, and was felled by the Potter, was no man to be playing with rocking-stones.
But I will not run into danger on purpose to give you the pleasure of defending me," said Belinda; and as she spoke, she turned her horse another way. "You won't turn back, Miss Portman?" cried Vincent eagerly, laying his hand on her bridle. "Good Heavens, ma'am! we can't run away! We came here to look at these rocking-stones! We have not half seen them.
It was not perfect, but probably the best ever devised by human genius, with its checks and balances, "like one of those rocking-stones reared by the Druids," as Winthrop beautifully said, "which the finger of a child may vibrate to its centre, yet which the might of an army cannot move from its place."
Freke's train, or of delivering her from the perilous height of one of those rocking-stones. It would have been a new incident in a novel." "How that poor girl screamed!" said Belinda. "Was her terror real or affected?" "Partly real, partly affected, I fancy," said Mr. Percival. "I pity her," said Mr. Vincent; "for Mrs. Freke leads her a weary life."
There! my breath has set them in motion. Look, they shake, shake, shake, like the great rocking-stones at Brimham Crags." "That is comparing small things to great, indeed!" said Mr. Percival. "By-the-by," cried Mr. Vincent, "Miss Portman has never seen those wonderful rocking-stones suppose we were to ride to see them to-morrow?"
You know those rocking-stones down in the south of England; tons of weight poised upon a pin point, and so exquisitely balanced that a child's finger rightly applied may move the mass.
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