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... standing and great natural wit . The mode of house with her head than with her heels ; the managing her household ... stand exactly as she had placed hire . ' But then , three or four times a year , but them , with the same covers and ...
... standing and great natural wit . The mode of house with her head than with her heels ; the managing her household ... stand exactly as she had placed hire . ' But then , three or four times a year , but them , with the same covers and ...
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... stand , as it were , in fear of each other , but have at the same time the highest mutual esteem ; yet she declares ... standing collar . mother meet , although the French greeting is dis- The hands are well made , though large , and ...
... stand , as it were , in fear of each other , but have at the same time the highest mutual esteem ; yet she declares ... standing collar . mother meet , although the French greeting is dis- The hands are well made , though large , and ...
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... stand well with the Von P.s. Have you ever had the experience of feeling , after you have been for a few hours with so ne people , as if you | were drenched through with water , or had all the new wine of life pressed out of you , as ...
... stand well with the Von P.s. Have you ever had the experience of feeling , after you have been for a few hours with so ne people , as if you | were drenched through with water , or had all the new wine of life pressed out of you , as ...
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... stand on the fear that you deem me cold and indifferent . That crisis of my life . Love alone can save me . I pains ... stands so well with Ma chère suffer , to enjoy ; together to die , to be one here mère as thou . No one possesses so ...
... stand on the fear that you deem me cold and indifferent . That crisis of my life . Love alone can save me . I pains ... stands so well with Ma chère suffer , to enjoy ; together to die , to be one here mère as thou . No one possesses so ...
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... stand before her , and burst the ice - rind of her heart ; or my brain shall burst , and she shall be covered with my blood . I will awaken in her bosom - re- morse ! I will call into her eye a tear which shall never dry up again ! She ...
... stand before her , and burst the ice - rind of her heart ; or my brain shall burst , and she shall be covered with my blood . I will awaken in her bosom - re- morse ! I will call into her eye a tear which shall never dry up again ! She ...
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Page 102 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 121 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Page 15 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page 35 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father.
Page 72 - For we know in part, and prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 42 - ... in her frequent sighs. Like her husband, she is universally revered and beloved ; and all agree in this, that a more perfect union than exists between this couple cannot be imagined. Will you see in one little circumstance a miniature picture of the whole ? Every evening the old man himself roasts two apples — every evening, when they are done, he gives one of them to " his handsome old wife,
Page 42 - We shall not come out of the poetry of the house while she abides there. The Mother : An aged countenance and a bowed form, and you see an old woman ; but show her something beautiful, speak to her of something amiable, and her mien, her smile, beams from the eternal youth which dwells immortal in her sensitive spirit, and then will you involuntarily exclaim, "What beautiful age!
Page 38 - There sitteth a dove so white and fair, All on the lily- spray, And she listeneth how, to Jesus Christ, The little children pray. Lightly she spreads her friendly wings, And to heaven's gate hath sped, And unto the Father in heaven she bears The prayers which the children said.
Page 71 - nature sleeps," but this sleep resembles death ; like death, it is cold and ghastly, and would obscure the heart of man, did not another light descend at the same time, if it did not open to the heart a warmer bosom and animate it with its life. In Sweden they know this very well, and...
Page 35 - God, the eternally good, the highest love, will he forsake his fallen, his wretched child ? Will he do less than an earthly mother for her own ? O, no ; he will never turn away his face ; he will seek his child ; he will call him ; he will suffer ; he will give his heart's blood to win him again, to unite him again to himself. If God lives' in holier worlds as a dispenser of blessedness, he must live on the earth as a reconciler.