 In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth...  Saint Pauls - Page 5761873Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 838 pages
...rough places plain." A beautiful paragraph may give the spirit and intention of the whole book : — " In old days there were angels who came and took men...backward ; and the hand may be a little child's." POEMS, Sacred and Secular. Bv the Kev. William Crossvrell, DD Edited, with a Memoir, by A. Cleveland... | |
 | George Eliot - Adopted children - 1861 - 398 pages
...gave a growing purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men...more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. CHAPTER XV. THERE was one person, as you will believe, who watched with keener though more hidden interest... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1861 - 304 pages
...gave a growing purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men...more backward; and the hand may be a little child's. CHAPTER XV. THERE was one person, as you will believe, who watched with keener though more hidden interest... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...Eliot: "In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the citj' of destruction. We see no whitewinged angels now....more backward, and the hand may be a little child's." We do not fully comprehend, as yet, how welcome to the heathen world was the story of the Babe of Bethlehem.... | |
 | George Eliot - English fiction - 1864 - 300 pages
...old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of 20 destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But...more backward; and the hand may be a little child's. CHAPTER XV THERE was one person, as you will believe, who watched with keener though more hidden interest... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...her brother, from whom she had been estranged in life, but with whom she was thus tragically reunited in death. This story gives one the impression that...existence he had begun to doubt. The golden head of Erne, as he sees her lying upon the floor, seems to him to be his gold which had been stolen come back... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...FLOSS.' • PART FOURTH. SAYINGS FROM 'SILAS MARNER.' SILAS MARKER. George Eliot (in propria persona). IN old days there were angels who came and took men...more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. The gods of the hearth exist for us still ; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1920 - 596 pages
...away from threatening destruction; a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's." EVERY BOY CAN PLAY By RALPH W. KINSEY ARE you ready, Captain Jones?" "Ready !" you reply, with the... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...threatening destruction : a hand i¿ put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a cairn and bright land, so that they look no more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. VERSES.1 Unthinking, idle, wild and young, I laugh'd, and talk'd, and danced, and sutig: Aiid proud... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...FLOSS.' PART FOURTH. SAYINGS FROM 'SILAS MARNER.' SILAS MARNER. George Eliot (in propria persona). IN old days there were angels who came and took men...more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. — o — The gods of the hearth exist for us still ; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism,... | |
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