The Churchman's Monthly Companion, Ed by T K Arnold

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 - 294 páginas
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ship-owners and proprietors: the necessity of raising the siege was removed; and the author of the measure waited in calmness for the consequences that might result to himself personally. But not a complaint, not a murmur proceeded from the court of Naples. The sole result was, that the governor of Malta became an especial object of its hatred, its fear, and its respect.?Coleridge: altered here and there. . ? High prices and plenty, says Adam Smith, are prosperity; low prices and scarcity are misery. It is to no purpose, said Dr. Johnson, to tell me that eggs are a penny the dozen in the Highlands; that is not because eggs are many, but because pence are few. THE NORMAN BOY. High on a broad unfertile tract of forest-skirted Down, Nor kept by Nature for herself, nor made by man his own, From home and company remote and every playful joy, Served, tending a few sheep and goats, a ragged Norman boy. Him never saw I, nor the spot, but from an English Dame, Stranger to me and yet my friend, a simple notice came, With suit that I would speak in verse of that sequestered child Whom, one bleak winter's day, she met upon the dreary Wild. His flock, along the woodland's edge, with relics sprinkled o'er Of last night's snow, beneath a sky threatening the fall of more, Where tufts of herbage tempted each, were busy at their feed, And the poor Boy was busier still, with work of anxious heed. There was he, where of branches rent and withered and decayed, For covertfrom the keen north wind, his hands a hut had made; A tiny tenement, forsooth, and frail, as needs must be A thing of such materials framed, by a builder such as he. The hut stood finished by his pains, nor seemingly lacked aught That skill or means of his could add, but the architect had...

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