Loose Papers; Or, Facts Gathered During Eight Years' Residence in Ireland, Scotland, England, France, and Germany |
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Page 109 - The lovers stood on each side of a small purling brook; they laved their hands in its limpid stream, and, holding a bible between them, pronounced their vows to be faithful to each other.
Page 247 - My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
Page 185 - This establishment possesses a library of domestic zoology, a cabinet of comparative anatomy, and another of pathology. There are also a botanical garden, hospitals for sick animals, a laboratory, a pharmacy, ground for the cultivation of grasses, a school of practical agriculture, a flock of sheep for experiment, a herd of swine, a set of bee-hives, and an amphitheatre, where lectures are delivered upon veterinary medicine and rural economy.
Page 143 - Fortie and two years in this vessel fraile, On the rough seas of life did Keeling saile, A merchant fortunate, a captaine bould, A courtier gracious, yet, alas I not old.
Page 110 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shall perform unto the Lord thine oaths: But I say unto you, Swear not at all...
Page 143 - For Christ: without Christ, all his gains but losse; For him, and his dear love, with merrie cheere, To the holy land his last course he did steere. Faith served for sails, the sacred word for card, Hope was his anchor, glorie his reward : And thus with gales of grace, by happy venter, Through straits of death, heaven's harbour he did enter.
Page 110 - And ye shall not swear by my name falsely : I am the Lord.'- — Levit. xix. 12." In the second volume, " ' Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oath.
Page 94 - ... that to fear God and keep his commandments was the whole duty of man.
Page 183 - The workshops are narrow dirty galleries; the indigent, however, are well clothed, and in general appear satisfied with their treatment. Their daily allowance of food is a portion of soup, a pound and a quarter of bread, four ounces of meat for dinner, vegetables or cheese at night, and a quarter of a pint of wine. At the age of seventy they have a double portion of wine; and when they have been thirty years in the house, they receive a double allowance of every kind.
Page 183 - ... three hours a-day at their respective trades or other occupations, and receive in return a share of the profits ; the rest goes towards defraying the expenses of the establishment. The daily allowance to the indigent is a portion of soup, a pound and a quarter of bread, four ounces of meat for dinner, vegetables or cheese at night, and a quarter of a pint of wine. The average daily cost of each individual is 90 c., and the total annual expense about 900,000 francs. The class of persons called...