The Mighty AtomA didactic and cautionary novel about the peril of educating a child in the strict absence of religion. |
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ADA CAMBRIDGE ADELINE SERGEANT angels answered arms asked atheism Atom beautiful blue eyes boy's brain bright child church churchyard Clarinda clever cloth gilt Clovelly Combmartin coom crown 8vo curls dead dear Edition face father fcap feel feyther FLORENCE MARRYAT flowers Good-bye grave hand head heart Heaven Helen of Troy Ilfracombe Jessamine Dale Jessamine's kissed knew laughed learned Lionel looked lips little Jessamine Little Lord Fauntleroy live Lucy Lylie Lynmouth Master Lionel matter mind Montrose mother murmured never NOVEL once pale pity portmanteau pretty Professor Cadman-Gore Reuben Dale rose round SAINT AMAND seemed silent Sir Charles smile Sorrows of Satan soul stood story strange sudden suddenly sure sweet tears tell there's thing thought turned tutor Valliscourt verger village voice Watermouth Castle window wonder young
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Page 333 - God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.
Page 331 - It is sown in corruption : it is raised in incorruption ; it is sown in dishonour : it is raised in glory ; it is sown in weakness : it is raised in power ; it is sown a natural body: it is raised a spiritual body.
Page 88 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 100 - HOLY, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee . Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty ! God in three persons, blessed Trinity. Holy, holy, holy, all the saints adore thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea ; Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee, Which wert and art and evermore shalt be.
Page 5 - PROGRESSIVISTS* WHO BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE ASSIST THE INFAMOUS CAUSE OF EDUCATION WITHOUT RELIGION AND WHO, BY PROMOTING THE IDEA, BORROWED FROM FRENCH ATHEISM, OF DENYING TO THE CHILDREN IN BOARD SCHOOLS AND ELSEWHERE, THE KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE OF GOD AS THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF NOBLE LIVING, ARE GUILTY OF A WORSE CRIME THAN MURDER.
Page 155 - ... composed of atoms, and the First Cause is also an atom, where is it, he asks ? And where did it come from, this first Atom which created everything? With a nice line in sarcasm, the child interrogates Cadman-Gore thus: I should not have mentioned it to you, unless I had heard that you were so wise ... I had a very clever tutor, a Mr. Skeet, — he was a Positivist, he said, and a great friend of a person named Frederic Harrison,* and he told me all about the Atom. He even showed me the enlarged...
Page 340 - THE END. Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury. MESSRS. HUTCHINSON & CO.'S NEW BOOKS. A FIRST EDITION OF 20,000 COPIES OF MARIE CORELU'S NEW BOOK. The Mighty Atom. By the Author of "The Sorrows of Satan," " Barabbas,
Page 154 - Lionel on the subject of the Atom. " Where is it ?—that wonderful little First Atom, which, without knowing in the least what it was about, and with nobody to guide it, and having no reason, judgment, sight, or sense of its own, produced such beautiful creations ? And then, if you are able to tell me where it is, will you also tell me where it came from...
Page 333 - ... earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, •whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.