"Who," said a country clergyman to his flock, "do you more in your pew when I preach unto you, while you [?] attention to every stranger invite?" "Because, Sir. [?] you preach I am su[?] is right but I can't trust ...
Article : 61 wordsM. Ledoyen's system, with all its numerous instances of successful application, never succeeded in satisfying utilitarians to the full; but enough was elicited to arouse in England, and on the continent, the most clever and elaborate ...
Article : 1,799 wordsA singular incident occurred lately, in a plantation near Lugar Iron Works. A lad was going that way, accom rallied by a dog, which, returning from one of its discursive ramblings to and fro in the wood, laid at his feet a bit of ...
Article : 141 wordsA clergyman of a country village desired his clerk to give notice that there would be no service in the afternoon, "as he was going to officiate for another clergyman" The clerk, as soon as the service was ended, called ...
Article : 71 wordsA flour merchant at Boston was made so happy by the news brought by the Hibernia, that visions of prospective profits mingled with his dreams as he quietly snoozed at church the following Sunday. The minister was ...
Article : 74 wordsAt Mrs Child's the King's Arms Inn, Arundelstreet, Strand, London, there is a favourite black and white spaniel, which performs a number of tricks and feats almost surpassing belief. The dog was named by Mr John Child, ...
Article : 559 wordsA rather ludicrous circumstance occurred in a parish church with the limits of this borough on Sunday evening last. The officiating clergyman, in the course of his sermon, and then near the close, raised his voice to ...
Article : 103 wordsWhen Mr Whitfield, the famed sectarian, crossed the Atlantic, he was greatly affected by the horrid swearing of the crew, and requested the captain to put it down. The latter, who was a wag, promised to do so, and accordingly ...
Article : 148 wordsSome animals had reasoning powers like our own, but more limiied. He could not imagine any person could associate much with a favourite domestic animal without perceiving indications of educability, and where that existed ...
Article : 352 wordsThe clergyman in a certain town, as the custom is, having published the banns of matrimony between two persons, was followed, by the clerk reading the bymn beginning with these words, "Mistaken souls, who dream of ...
Article : 40 wordsIn March, last year, a poor and aged peasant entered the Pontifical antechamber, for the purpose of being admitted to an audience with the Holy Father. His countenance betrayed deep emotion, and scarcely did he find ...
Article : 412 wordsAn amusing, incident has been related to us. The rector of a populous parish within the boundary of Leicester ascended his pulpit the other Sunday. His manuscript was duly unfolded, and the customary clearing of his throat ...
Article : 174 wordsWe remember being in Brunswick Chapel, Liverpool (a very elegant structure, and filled with a very genteel congregation), when the late Mr Pipe, a remarkably mild and quiet man, was offering up the concluding prayer In ...
Article : 534 wordsOne of the latest efforts at novelty has been the exhibition of a curious character at the St. James's Assembly Rooms. A numerously-tenanted cage of canary-birds is introduced to the public by a bird-fancier, in a spangled ...
Article : 178 wordsAn extraordinaiy burglary was effected in the neighbourhood of Woburn, by two elephants belonging to the establishment of Mr Hughes. It appears that on arriving at Markyate-street, a few miles beyond Woburn, the ...
Article : 317 wordsThe history of his marriage was a singular one. It has been related in a dozen different waye, but I believe the following account of it to be correct:—One day whilst alighting at a friend's door for the purpose of dining with ...
Article : 257 wordsLeaning happily on Jamieson's arm, or accompanied by Adam, I used to walk to Langgarteen, where the Russian palace, now converted into the Government-house, stands. This was a pleasant walk by day, but, when night came on, ...
Article : 774 wordsA whale and her cub got into an arm of the sea, where by the desertion of the tide they were left almost without retreat. The people on shore soon saw their situation, and came down on them in bouts with such weapon ...
Article : 246 wordsMore than one hundred years ago, there graduated at Harvard University a man by the name of R wson who subsequently settled in the ministry at Yarmouth, and Cape Cod. He used to preach very pointed sermons. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Lesser Cumbrae, a small island in the Clyde, recently visited, by her Majesty, and thus again restored to fame, was formerly noted for an amusing anecdote of its worthy minister, who, deeply impressed with the importance ...
Article : 73 words"Ah, Sir!" exclaimed an elder in a tone of pathetic recollection, "our late minister was a man! He was a powerful preacher; for, in the short time he delivered the work amongst us, he knocked three pulpits to pieces, and ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Cincinnati Advertiser tells a story of an eccentric clergyman who, not being a very animated and interesting preacher, was often deserted by his flock, at least by parts of them, on the Sabbath, The old gentleman finally ...
Article : 277 wordsAcquatic animals are generally supposed to be destitute of the means cf making themselves heard; and if they communicate with each other, it is usually supposed that it must be otherwise than by sound. The seal has. It ...
Article : 479 wordsA preacher, who had been a printer, in delivering a sermon, compared youth, to a comma, manhood to a semicolon, and old age to a colon, to which death puts a period. ...
Article : 36 wordsA book was printed daring the time of Cromwell with the following title:—"Eggs of Charity, layed by the Chickens of the Covenant, and boiled with the water of Divine Love—Take ye and eat." ...
Article : 37 wordsJeremv Taylor, speaking of the widow of a blacksmith, who was constantly labouring to procure the necessaries of life, thus beautifully but quaintly pourtrays her character:—"Thus she lived, poor, patient, and resigned. ...
Article : 108 wordsA gentleman was complaining to a pious prelate that a certain clergyman in his neighbourhood was gone mad. for that he did nothing but preach and pray. "I wish then," said the good Bishop, "he would bite some of my ...
Article : 49 wordsOne of the most popular Dissenting ministers of London, remarked, in the pulpit, not long since, that the etymology of the word Jesus beautifully set forth the blessings or his grace—Jesu—"I-ease you." We hear much of ...
Article : 51 wordsAt one time the clergy took a great fancy to the practice of medicine, and combined physic with divinity; and one day one of them, in the course of some inquiries as to the state of the religious knowledge of an old ...
Article : 281 wordsBy the American tariff "philosophical apparatus" is admitted free of duty. A church in New York imported a quantity of costly carpeting. The arbitrator belonged to the denomination and the church was in safe hands, of ...
Article : 139 wordsMr Blucher, of Farm Isle (Isle of Shoals), owns, a hen that accompanies him daily in his fishing-boat, and denotes satisfaction at unusual success by audible demonstrations. The hen also goes in-his boat to Portsmouth, ...
Article : 157 wordsA singular circumstance has arisen out of the late fire in Market-street, Manchester. A favourite tortoiseshell cat. the propercy of Richard Greenalls, the porter at Messrs Canliffe and Brooks's bank, who occupied a room ...
Article : 500 wordsThe following stanza of Old Hundred is printed as it is usually pronounced in singing:—Be he thow-ow, bo-o Gaw-hawd. bex halted hi-igh, A-a-nd a-as tby igh glo-ho-rie fi-hills the e sky-hi, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe damaged. Indian corn which has been introduced into Ireland teems with swarms of little reptiles or insects of different varieties, some shaped like ants, others like diminutive beetles, which make their way into all the houses ...
Article : 127 wordsOn Trinity Sunday, last, a remarkably, incident occurred m[?]ural panish on the banks of the Tyne, which, our infordant communicates to us under the appropriate be [?]g at "A Romance of Real Life." The incumnent ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 1 Apr 1848, Page 4
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