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Sabine Baring-Gould
Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
Born: Jan 28, 1834
Died: Jan 2, 1924
Cornwall God Great He Love Man
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back. Sabine Baring-Gould
Good Hurdles Sheep Every Back Way Fold Runs Ten Ten Commandments Pushes He Between Forbidden Leaps Shepherd His His Way Commandments Goes Behind Where After Place Them Then Flock Now Now And Then Away Keeps Shut Brings
According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father. Sabine Baring-Gould
Law Father Divided Sons Equally According Celtic Inheritance
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation. Sabine Baring-Gould
Political Christian Christianity Way Altered Became Organisation British
The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised. Sabine Baring-Gould
Discipline Church Ministry Purely Brought Know Souls Till Were Gradually Roman Celtic Whence
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained. Sabine Baring-Gould
Garden Ghost Neighbour Entertained Lone Some Troublesome Bag Spot Germany North Against Whom Grudge
The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious. Sabine Baring-Gould
Will Strangers Visitor Kindly Somewhat He Periodic Courteous Suspicious Where Manner Found
I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life. Sabine Baring-Gould
Life Kindness My Life Met Back Spent Pleasure Some Hospitality Look Greatest Years Greatest Pleasure Yorkshire Where Happiest
Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end. Sabine Baring-Gould
Man Selfish Concord Own Seeks Touched General His End Interest Interests Each Each Man
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top. Sabine Baring-Gould
Satisfied Society Top Like None Till Covered Whole
Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England. Sabine Baring-Gould
People Country Drink Main West England
The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement. Sabine Baring-Gould
Nature Garden Theatre Grace Made First Beauty Immediate London Charm Had First Appearance Reached She Effect Fame Child Manager May Manner Engagement Appearance Her Maria
The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin. Sabine Baring-Gould
Tribal Ruin System Entirely Never Freed Himself Celtic Curse Which Race
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe. Sabine Baring-Gould
Group Cornwall Kicking Boot Out Bears Thrust Football Like Shattered West South Italy Leg Whereas Certain Toe Resemblance Stands Each Sicily
We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable. Sabine Baring-Gould
Others Elsewhere Bitten Shakespeare Except Like Alternate Cliffs Beds Rolling Accustomed Where Sea Hard Dover England Downs Chalk Presents
Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded. Sabine Baring-Gould
Broken Sometimes Rugged Long Before Stage Sliding Carpet Stationary Unable Remains He Step Step Forward Taking Steps Smoothly Often Form Ascent Mankind Turned Next Forward Even Gaps Round Resolution
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God. Sabine Baring-Gould
Happiness God Freedom Will Free Free Will Only Attained Accord Agreeing
Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort. Sabine Baring-Gould
Time Family Cause Will Mouth Drawn Has-Been Some Parish Unrest Taken Feel Come Like County Discomfort Been Which Then Should Away Vacancy
A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade. Sabine Baring-Gould
Family Humble Ruin Extravagance Ruined Circumstances Members Through Gentle Trade Always Junior May Representatives Comparatively Found
There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours. Sabine Baring-Gould
Nothing Trees Our Striking Ours Eye Know Return Continent Any England Europe Compare
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations. Sabine Baring-Gould
Faith Great Old Other Sexes Both Because Isle Coming Saints Ireland Nations Former Ages Holy Who Amongst Number
The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals. Sabine Baring-Gould
Best Stream Slow Sides Rapid Spirals Civilisation River Advances Like Current Mid Flows
Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years. Sabine Baring-Gould
John See He Disciple Saint Continue His Years Convert Succeed Full Forty Forty Years Evangelist Peter Appointed
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land. Sabine Baring-Gould
Tyranny King Power Settlers Harold Despotic Tried Noble Crush Make Himself Were Left Norway Native Native Land Iceland Land Avoid Who Original
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds. Sabine Baring-Gould
Back Distorting Folding Feature Prime Altering Geology Beds Upheaval Granite
Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter. Sabine Baring-Gould
Great Man First Furnished Those Had He Learned Were Them Ages Next Barter Population Chalk
One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable. Sabine Baring-Gould
Great Old World-Wide Unmistakable Insight Given Superstitions Glacier Study Advantages Tradition Literature Ice Transparent Origin
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