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Chapter Twenty Five.
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Shows the Miner in his Sunday Garb1, and Astonishes Clearemout, besides Relating some Incidents of an Accident.
The sun rose bright and hot on Sunday morning, but the little birds were up before the great luminary2, singing their morning hymn3 with noisy delight. It was a peaceful day. The wind was at rest and the sea was calm. In the ancient town of St. Just it was peculiarly peaceful, for the numerous and untiring “stamps”—which all the week had continued their clang and clatter4, morning, noon, and night, without intermission—found rest on that hallowed day, and the great engines ceased to bow their massive heads, with the exception of those that worked the pumps. Even these, however, were required to do as little work as was compatible with the due drainage of the mines, and as their huge pulsations were intermittent—few and far between—they did not succeed in disturbing the universal serenity5 of the morning.
If there are in this country men who, more than any other, need repose6, we should say they are the miners of Cornwall, for their week’s work is exhausting far beyond that of most other labourers in the kingdom. Perhaps the herculean men employed in malleable-iron works toil7 as severely8, but, besides the cheering consciousness of being well paid for their labour, these men exert their powers in the midst of sunlight and fresh air, while the miners toil in bad air, and get little pay in hard times. Sunday is indeed to them the Sabbath-day—it is literally9 what that word signifies, a day of much-required rest for body, soul, and spirit.
Pity that the good old word which God gave us is not more universally used among
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hymn
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discord
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forefathers
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nettled
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audacity
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robust
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cherub
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radical
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distress
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chapel
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buxom
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astonishment
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garbs
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linen
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eldest
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exemption
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smuggling
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hymns
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n.赞美诗,圣歌,颂歌( hymn的名词复数 ) | |
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tunes
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unfamiliar
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utterance
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fervent
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forth
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hip
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铆接( rivet的过去式和过去分词 ); 把…固定住; 吸引; 引起某人的注意 | |
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vi./n.轻声笑,咯咯笑 | |
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capabilities
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ministry
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abode
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vocation
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descending
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gasp
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