Do we say parish or perish

parish 3465 occurrences

How bless'd are you, that the wenches of the parish do not see you! SUM.

After three days wandering and starvation on the north-midland moors, for hastily and secretly I had travelled by coach as far from Thornfield as my money would carry me, I found a temporary home at the vicarage of Morton, until the clergyman of that moorland parish, Mr. St. John Rivers, secured for meunder the assumed name of Jane Elliottthe mistresship of the village school.

We know you have byn the headman of the parish

Nay, ile bind it with an oath before the parish, And when I have given my reasons, too, the Clarke Shall praise me fort and say Amen. Sis.

True it is that the curate of the parish had ventured the observation to Padre Irene that Capitan Tiago had died without confession, but the good priest, smiling sardonically, had rubbed the tip of his nose and answered: "Why say that to me?

p. 17, on his having given the title of a book ascribed to the subject of the foregoing memoir "This truly respectable gentleman was the descendant of a family very anciently situated at Oglethorpe, in the parish of Bramham, in the West Riding of the County of York; one of whom was actually Reeve of the County (an office nearly the same with that of the present high-sheriff) at the time of the Norman Conquest.

He died April 10,1702, as appears by a pedigree in the collection of the late J.C. Brooke, Esq., though the following inscription in the parish church of St. James, Westminster, where he was buried, has a year earlier.

I certify that the above is a true extract from the Register Book of Baptisms belonging to the Parish of St. James, Westminster.

And, admitting that his nativity was on the 21st of December, the season of the year alone would be sufficient reason for deferring the public ceremony till after the inclement weather, and the opportunity favored for having it in the Parish Church, where all the other children had been baptized.

[meaning King William III and King George I] at the expense of a million a year who understood neither her laws, her language, nor her interest, and whose capacities would scarcely have fitted them for the office of a parish constable.

We are a company of ignorant beings, dimly discerning light enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures to declare that we don’t know the map of the Universe as well as the map of our infinitesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness.

He came down from the summit on which he had won the world's admiration, to the steady, regular duties of the school-room, to take his place in the vestry of a Christian church, and to administer the affairs of a country parish in the interest of Christianity.

"I know intimately every member of my parish and every member of every other parish by this time from sheer hearsay.

"I know intimately every member of my parish and every member of every other parish by this time from sheer hearsay.

There was quite a number of young girls in his parish, more proportionately than in the others.

"A new broom sweeps clean," remarked Mrs. Upjohn, contemptuously, as she heard of the stir and life in St. Joseph's heretofore-dull little parish.

"These, ladies," she said, "as you will have guessed, are for the winter wear of our parish poor.

Let Mrs. Upjohn's parish sew for its own poor, I won't crease my fresh dress holding that great, thick lump on my lap all the afternoon.

Now if such were the fact in the Parish of St. Thomas in the East, where greater confidence was felt probably than in any other parish, we have a clue by which we may conjecture (if indeed we were left to conjecture) to what extent the cultivation was diminished in the island generally.

Now if such were the fact in the Parish of St. Thomas in the East, where greater confidence was felt probably than in any other parish, we have a clue by which we may conjecture (if indeed we were left to conjecture) to what extent the cultivation was diminished in the island generally.

In the Biabou quarter the laborers have resumed work in greater numbers than in other parts of the parish, and the exceptions in this, as in ether districts, we hope will continue but a short time.

but half work is performed by the laborer in that parish.

"Those of the adjoining parish," its says, "are said to be working satisfactorily."

It is situated to the north, on the harbor of its name, defended by a fort of regular construction; it has about 500 houses, among the notable stone ones being the parish, court house and jail, and casa real.

"Then there are cathedrals, parish churches, temples and chapels, sumptuous and admired, where they adore the same God of the Sinai and Golgotha, where severs and ostensive cult is rendered to Immaculate Virgin Mary and to the Saints you have on your altars and none dare to destroy, attack or prostitute them.

perish 1851 occurrences

Hear me, thou, Thou Traytor, that darest confine thy King to things Possible and honest; shew her me, Or let me perish, if I cover not all Cicily with bloud.

Or let me perish loath'd.

A wretched creature wounded in these Woods By Beasts; relieve me, if your names be men, Or I shall perish.

Di. We'l scuffle hard before he perish.

Mighty Sir, I will not do your greatness so much wrong, As not to make your word truth; free the Princess, And the poor boy, and let me stand the shock Of this mad Sea breach, which I'le either turn Or perish with it.

The room in which I lay was a prison dungeon, and in it, in the olden times, it is said, men had been left to perish.

The Enemy still came on with greater Fury, and hoped by his Number of Men to carry the Prize, till at last the Englishman finding himself sink apace, and ready to perish, struck: But the Effect which this singular Gallantry had upon the Captain of the Privateer, was no other than an unmanly Desire of Vengeance for the Loss he had sustained in his several Attacks.

But particularly in that passionate Speech, where seeing her irrecoverably lost, he resolves to perish with her rather than to live without her.

Is it not then better to perish a thousand times than to be unable to live in one's own city without a guard of armed men?

And if now (but may the immortal gods avert the omen!) that worst of fates shall befall the republic, then, as brave gladiators take care to perish with honour, let us too, who are the chief men of all countries and nations, take care to fall with dignity rather than to live as slaves with ignominy.

The young girl clings passionately even to her grief, and rejects as an insult the idea that such deep regret can become less in all a lifetime,that love, immortal, vital, all-pervading, can perish from its prime, and flutter away into dust like the dead leaves of a rose.

The new inventions bring new calamities, and men perish in crowds by the recoil of their own devices.

Ah, the tempest I Cast away by fortune! Must the good one perish in this fashion? Might not he perchance *

Man is not meant, forsooth, to grow from the ground like a mushroom, Quickly to perish away on the spot of ground that begot him, Leaving no trace behind of himself and his animate action!

Trust me, the race of Tantalus is doom'd; And I, his last descendant, may not perish, Or crown'd with honor or unstain'd by crime.

IPHIGENIA Thou shalt not perish!

That she with us May also perish, nor her life prolong For heavier destiny and direr woe.

If slaveholders will not trade with us, unless we consent to be slaves ourselves, then let us leave their money, and their sugar, and their cotton, to perish with them.

And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and if I perish, I perish."

And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and if I perish, I perish."

Appealing to the great Ruler of the universe for the rectitude of their course, they pledged to each other "their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor," to conquer or perish in their struggle to be free.

The spirit that would have chosen danger in preference to crime,to perish with justice rather than live with dishonor,to dare and suffer whatever might betide, rather than sacrifice the rights of one human being,could never have been subjugated by any mortal power.

The London and Plymouth companies did not perish until after state governments had been organized in the colonies already founded upon their territories.

Under the idea of striking terror into the minds of his subjects, by the force of example, and deterring them from revolting again, he inflicted the most dreadful punishment on those who had opposed his authority; some he caused to be hung up by the feet, and suffered to perish for want of sustenance; others, to be crucified at the gates of the city; and several high priests, and officers of state, he deprived of the blessing of sight.

Now the senate in general thought it shocking for a man of senatorial rank who was guilty of no crime and now well advanced in years to perish, and were all the more enraged because the dignity of the government was being attacked, and control of affairs was being entrusted to the vilest men.

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