This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...Autumn), and the white roads of that district reflected the sunshine, and with their chalky dust made walking along them a great toil. Mr. Burgon usually walked rapidly; and, although no doubt he moderated his pace as much as possible to accommodate his fellow-traveller, still the hills and dusty road, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...Autumn), and the white roads of that district reflected the sunshine, and with their chalky dust made walking along them a great toil. Mr. Burgon usually walked rapidly; and, although no doubt he moderated his pace as much as possible to accommodate his fellow-traveller, still the hills and dusty road, combined with his long strides, in the course of a mile or two so exhausted the youngster, who no doubt was weakly through his recent illness, that at Rowstock he fairly gave in, and sat down by the road-side and cried. Mr. Burgon sat down too, and consoled the lad with sugar-plums from his pocket; and after a little while again essayed to finish the remaining five miles of the journey. But the little fellow was too exhausted to proceed; and so his kind companion lifted him up, and carried him pick-a-back along the dusty road and over the steep downs, till he reached his home, where he set him down in his mother's arms." Before we pass away from Ilsley, we may notice that in his Journal of Sunday October 28, 1849 (before he was ordained Priest therefore) is found this Memorandum. "As before. So happy! first extempore Sermon." He was not an extempore preacher, and probably before an educated congregation very rarely indeed omitted to take a manuscript into the pulpit. However, the late Warden of All Souls, Dr. Leighton, assured the author that on Sunday afternoon he had once heard Burgon preach extempore at St. Mary the Virgin's Church "in a most instructive and edifying manner" (perhaps this may have been in connexion with the afternoon Catechizing of the Choristers). On the author's mentioning this to Burgon, he said he might have done it once, but it was never his rule. "Considering that Heads of Houses, Tutors of...
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