Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge

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R. Gibson, 1802
 

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Página 197 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 235 - I cannot write much, (God knows) how hardly I steal this time when all sleep, and it is also time for me to separate my thoughts from the world. Beg my dead body, which living was denied you, and either lay it in...
Página 236 - ... me away. The everlasting God, powerful, infinite, and inscrutable, God Almighty, who is Goodness itself, the TRUE LIGHT and LIFE, keep you and yours, and have Mercy upon Me, and forgive my persecutors, and false accusers ; and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom. My dear wife, farewell ; bless my boy, pray for me ; and let my True .God hold you both in his arms. " Yours that was, but not now my own,
Página 235 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me, which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Página 278 - From the situation in which the child was found, it appears that he had wandered to the brink of the precipice, and...
Página 247 - THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE. STAY, lady, stay, for mercy's sake, And hear a helpless orphan's tale, Ah ! sure my looks must pity wake, ' Tis want that makes my cheek so pale. Yet I was once a mother's pride, And my brave father's hope and joy ; But in the Nile's proud fight he died, And I am now an orphan boy. Poor foolish child ! how pleased was I When news of Nelson's victory came, Along the crowded streets to fly, And see the lighted windows...
Página 94 - A draw-bridge, with a ruinous gate-way at each end, led to the court before the building - He entered, and...
Página 444 - We have thought fit, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation...
Página 235 - When you have travelled and wearied yourself with all sorts of worldly cogitations, you shall sit down by sorrow in the end. Teach your son also to serve and fear God, whilst he is young, that the fear of God may grow up in him ; then will God be an husband to you, and a father to him ; an husband and a father that can never be taken from you.
Página 235 - If you can live free from want, care for no more ; for the rest is but a vanity.

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