Trials: A Tale, Volume 2

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A. Small, 1824
 

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Page 181 - Me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of My people not been restored?
Page 112 - spirit," led her to encourage Mr. Carson more than ever she had done before. Some weeks after this there was a meeting 'of the Trades' Union to which John Barton belonged. The morning of the day on which it was to take place he had lain late in bed, for what was the use of getting up? He had hesitated between the purchase of meal or opium, and had chosen the latter, for its use had become a necessity with him. He wanted it to relieve him from the terrible depression its absence occasioned. A large...
Page 68 - The LORD hath chastened and corrected me ; but he hath not given me over unto death.
Page 131 - Of one that loved not wisely but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe ; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.
Page 64 - ' have a grateful sense of my kindness for you; indeed, I must do you the justice to say, that you have always evinced a grateful temper and a good heart.
Page 181 - Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities ? The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Page 182 - ... broken in heart by penury or by defeat, that there is a hand which " bindeth up the broken in heart, and healeth all their wounds ;" that even these natural breakings are regarded by Jehovah, who, in the plenitude of his mercy, giveth a balm for every wound to every one of his people. We need not ask, " Is there no balm in Gilead ? is there no physician there ?" There is a balm, there is a physician who can heal all these natural wounds, who can give joy to the troubled countenance, take the...
Page 98 - Illumine jamais ne peut imprimer sa trace. La terre est travaillee par lui, les montagnes sont coupees par ses routes, les rivieres se...
Page 130 - ... statue, at the same time that, by quaint insinuations and remarks, he was slyly working up the mirth of Arabella Hunter, could not, upon any account, permit the parting speech of the hapless Othello to pass off without comment. "Now, viiss Arabella, I beg that you will remember fAa/," said he, when Othello made it a request to his friends, " When you shall these unlucky deed! relate Speak of me as I am...

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