Charles Lever

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: CHAPTER III. it liapprnta tliai our $rro's parrnts from ti)r j)iuTl). The thing that hath been, it shall he: Through every clime and age Doth haughty man 'gainst Heaven's decree The same mad warfare wage. The thing that hath been, it shall be: The self-same pride this hour Bids headstrong myriads round us...
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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: CHAPTER III. it liapprnta tliai our $rro's parrnts from ti)r j)iuTl). The thing that hath been, it shall he: Through every clime and age Doth haughty man 'gainst Heaven's decree The same mad warfare wage. The thing that hath been, it shall be: The self-same pride this hour Bids headstrong myriads round us flee The Church's sheltering bower. Lyra Apostolica, ?Idolatry and Dittent. It does not signify, said Mr. Lever to his wife, as they sat comfortably together by the fire after having been at the evening service; I will not sit any longer under Mr. Onslow. I declare positively I could not keep awake this evening, all I could do. I shall begin snoring some day, and then how foolish I shall look Mrs. Lever might have said, that if John had drunk a glass of ale less at his dinner, he would have been more likely to have kept his eyes open at the sermon; but she did not like to say any thing which might offend her husband, who, to speak the truth, though without any notion of self-denial, could not be charged with intemperance. So she did not return any direct answer to her husband's remark, but observed, ? Mr. Onslow is a very good gentleman. I am sure scarcely a day passes that he does not visit poor old deaf Mr. Baker next door; you may hear his voice through the wall reading the Bible to him till he is hoarse; and then he crosses over to the school and spends an hour or more in teaching the children. I do believe every moment of his time is spent in his duties. Very like, very like, said John Lever, but what is all that to me ? I want to hear a good sermon, like Mr. Wilson's. Eh, dear what a figure Mr. Onslow cuts after him Poor man to see him that day he tried to preach extempore. What a boggle he did make of it, to ...