10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARSONISH»
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parsonish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The British and Foreign Review Or European Quarterly Journal
His book I 'like'; it is only too stufi"d with scripture, too parsonish. The best thing in
it is the boy's own story. When I say it is too full of scripture, I mean it is too full of
direct quotations: no book can have too much of silent scripture in it; but the ...
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An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary: with an analysis of ...
... a. perthynol i Parsonical, par'-sn-i-cal, [ berson neu Parsonish, par'-su-ish, J
glerigwr, cler- igol, clerigaidd Part, part, s. rhan, cyfran, darn, dryll, ysgar, esgar ;
peth ; parth, parthed, parthred; tu, plaid, ochr: v. a. rhanu; gwahanu, parthu,
ysgaru, ...
His book I ' like ;' it is only too stuffed with scripture, too parsonish. The best thing
in it is the boy's own story. When 1 say it is too full of scripture, I mean it is too full
of direct quotation* : no book can have tap much of silent scripture in it ; but the ...
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The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
Your friend Tayler called upon me some time since, and seemsavery amiable
man.His last story is painfully fine. His bookI"like;" itis only too stuffed with
Scripture, too parsonish. The best thing init is the boy's own story. When I sayit is
too full ...
He certainly looked the part— a parsonish pallor in his face, his hair dark, his
eyes an impenetrable dark diffusing brown, yet paradoxically intent. He moved
with a slow, careful, gentle dignity and grace. His sermons were exceptional
literary ...
They go the wrong way to work; they are too parsonish, too much of the old wife,
and even the old apple wife. CLOTHES, CLOTHES, are their idea; but clothes are
not Christianity, any more than they are the sun in heaven, or could take the ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, 2011
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A Bid for Fortune: Dr. Nikola's Vendetta: Easyread Large ...
Another minute brought us into as shallow water as I cared to go. Accordingly,
heaving to, I brought the dinghy alongside, and we got into her. Then casting off, I
pulled my lord ashore. A small, clean-shaven, parsonish-looking man, with the ...
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Adams Family Correspondence: January 1786-February 1787
He will look quite Parsonish with his Black Frogs and Buttons. The wastcoats
Gowns &c, we have made ourselves.1 Betsy and Lucy are become quite expert
at the business. They were reckning up this day foreteen wastcoats which they
had ...
Lyman Henry Butterfield, 1963
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Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951
That I didn't like the parsonish point of view of Prescott's is, of course, a different
story. – I am not reading much, thank God. I read in Grimm's fairy tales and in
Bismarck's “Gedanken and Erinnerungen” which I admire greatly. I don't mean, ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Brian McGuinness, 2012
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The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The ...
His book I ' like ;' it is only too stuffed with scripture, too parsonish. The best thing
in it is the boy's own story. When I say it is too full of scripture, I mean it is too full
of direct quotations : no book can have too much of silent scripture in it ; but the ...
Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1838
