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... mother was a quiet but energetic woman — the best of mothers , of friends , and of Christians . My sister and I were all in all to each other , and we could look back to a happy childhood . Our position in the town of - I cannot better ...
... mother was a quiet but energetic woman — the best of mothers , of friends , and of Christians . My sister and I were all in all to each other , and we could look back to a happy childhood . Our position in the town of - I cannot better ...
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... mother's beautiful character was scarcely known out of her own im- mediate circle , and that we girls were also deprived of many plea- sures and advantages . We were not rich , or that might have made , as it does often make , a ...
... mother's beautiful character was scarcely known out of her own im- mediate circle , and that we girls were also deprived of many plea- sures and advantages . We were not rich , or that might have made , as it does often make , a ...
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... mother would have nothing to do with us . Oh , Maggie , it's horrid . " " It was very wrong of Amy to repeat it to you . Never mind , darling , we will be happy without the Fitzjameses . I don't believe she is half so much of a lady as ...
... mother would have nothing to do with us . Oh , Maggie , it's horrid . " " It was very wrong of Amy to repeat it to you . Never mind , darling , we will be happy without the Fitzjameses . I don't believe she is half so much of a lady as ...
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... mother repeats aloud what seems to be a sermon , while the rest in various attitudes listen attentively . The plain Puritan dresses , no less than the aspect of the home , denote that the picture I have attempted to sketch is one of the ...
... mother repeats aloud what seems to be a sermon , while the rest in various attitudes listen attentively . The plain Puritan dresses , no less than the aspect of the home , denote that the picture I have attempted to sketch is one of the ...
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... mother do without you ? ” " Do you think father looks ill , Thomas ? " asked Nat , with a look of unchildlike care upon his childish face . " I think he gets more feeble . He has had a hard life , and yet a glorious , one , for it has ...
... mother do without you ? ” " Do you think father looks ill , Thomas ? " asked Nat , with a look of unchildlike care upon his childish face . " I think he gets more feeble . He has had a hard life , and yet a glorious , one , for it has ...
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Page 250 - For what shall it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?
Page 39 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 244 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
Page 246 - The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day...
Page 42 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily ? nay, verily ; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Page 118 - Some kindly deed the icy hand had wrought; Some gentle word the frozen lips had said; Errands on which the willing feet had sped : The memory of my selfishness and pride, My hasty words, would all be put aside. And so I should be loved and mourned to-night. If I should die to-night, Even hearts estranged would turn once more to me, Recalling other days remorsefully. The eyes that chill me with averted glance Would look upon me as of yore, perchance, And soften, in the old, familiar way. For who could...
Page 247 - And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said ; Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did ? But he turned and rebuked them, and said ; Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
Page 175 - And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie : but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 245 - And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day...
Page 245 - From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.