Chronicles and Stories of Old Bingley: A Full Account of the History, Antiquities, Natural Productions, Scenery, Customs and Folklore of the Ancient Town and Parish of Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Numerous Illustrations

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E. Stock, 1899 - 417 pages
 

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Page 9 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 276 - This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower In spring time, &C.
Page 264 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Page 257 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day...
Page 15 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 38 - Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea, The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier every milky sail On winding stream or distant sea ; Where now the seamew pipes, or dives In yonder greening gleam, and fly The happy birds, that change...
Page 33 - Are made to look on flowers, Eyes of small birds and insects small : Morn after summer morn The sweet rose on her thorn Opens her bosom to them all. The...
Page 81 - Loss of their Goods to the great damage and common Nuisance of all the Liege Subjects of our said Lord the King...
Page 15 - Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty, instruct him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it. Then Job answered the LORD, and said. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Page 72 - Confess ye now how frivolous and vain is the might of an earthly king compared to that great power who rules the elements, and can say unto the ocean, ' Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.

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