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... feel the cool , refreshing influence which the fountain imparts to all the air about it ! The most remarkable fountains in the world are those in the gardens of the palace at Versailles , near Paris . These fountains are very large ...
... feel the cool , refreshing influence which the fountain imparts to all the air about it ! The most remarkable fountains in the world are those in the gardens of the palace at Versailles , near Paris . These fountains are very large ...
Page 12
... feel it with your hand . You cannot hear the sound and splash of its going . Still it is there - it is everywhere . It is in the splendid ' dwellings of the rich , and in the humble abodes of the poor . The king may find it in his ...
... feel it with your hand . You cannot hear the sound and splash of its going . Still it is there - it is everywhere . It is in the splendid ' dwellings of the rich , and in the humble abodes of the poor . The king may find it in his ...
Page 50
... feel ashamed of letting it be known that they have to work for their living . This is very foolish ; there is reason enough why we should be ashamed of being idle , but there is no reason in the world for any- body to be ashamed of work ...
... feel ashamed of letting it be known that they have to work for their living . This is very foolish ; there is reason enough why we should be ashamed of being idle , but there is no reason in the world for any- body to be ashamed of work ...
Page 56
... feeling that leads us to do it . If you were a slave , and had some one standing over you all the time with a whip in his hand , ready to lash you at the very moment you didn't do just what he wanted you to do , then everything you did ...
... feeling that leads us to do it . If you were a slave , and had some one standing over you all the time with a whip in his hand , ready to lash you at the very moment you didn't do just what he wanted you to do , then everything you did ...
Page 86
... feel uncomfort- able as he passed his gate ; and the poor dog that barked at his geese , or the neighbour's rooster that crowed on his wall , was speedily visited either with the lash of his whip or the shot from his pistol . The very ...
... feel uncomfort- able as he passed his gate ; and the poor dog that barked at his geese , or the neighbour's rooster that crowed on his wall , was speedily visited either with the lash of his whip or the shot from his pistol . The very ...
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Page 68 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Page 163 - But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him ; and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet ; and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.
Page 103 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 17 - Dear, dying Lamb, thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed church of God Be saved, to sin no more.
Page 62 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 27 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 198 - Medallion on side, 5s. ; gilt, 7s. 6d. Our Four-Footed Friends ; or, The History of Manor Farm, and the People and Animals there. By Mary Howitt.
Page 192 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will hear, and thou shalt glorify me...
Page 135 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Page 17 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.