My Earnings ; Or, The Story of Ann Ellison's LifeKnight and Son, 1859 - 172 pages |
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... eyes at her shiny silver pencil - case ; -I seem to remember it all as plainly as if it had been only yesterday ! She asked me about father and mother , and how many brothers and sisters I had . It quite went to my heart , it was so ...
... eyes at her shiny silver pencil - case ; -I seem to remember it all as plainly as if it had been only yesterday ! She asked me about father and mother , and how many brothers and sisters I had . It quite went to my heart , it was so ...
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... eyes had never been taught to notice things , nor her mind to think about them . Her teacher de- spaired of finding out anything the child could understand ; but when she began to talk one day about Jesus Christ's having been born in a ...
... eyes had never been taught to notice things , nor her mind to think about them . Her teacher de- spaired of finding out anything the child could understand ; but when she began to talk one day about Jesus Christ's having been born in a ...
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... eyes ! how I had been longing for it , —not so much for its own sake , as for its being the very first of all my earnings . No husband- man ever looked more eagerly for the first grapes of his vintage , than did I for that one single ...
... eyes ! how I had been longing for it , —not so much for its own sake , as for its being the very first of all my earnings . No husband- man ever looked more eagerly for the first grapes of his vintage , than did I for that one single ...
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... eye to rest upon . I can give one example to show how much I thought about it . I had got on very quickly since I first went into Miss Charlotte's class . She had given each of us a Bible , because she wished us to search it a great ...
... eye to rest upon . I can give one example to show how much I thought about it . I had got on very quickly since I first went into Miss Charlotte's class . She had given each of us a Bible , because she wished us to search it a great ...
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... eyes , the thick veil of pride and self - deceit and so things went on for many and many a long year . Thanks be to His grace who at last tore it away , and let in the light of truth ! 23 CHAPTER II . MY FIRST PLACE . FOR the 22 MY ...
... eyes , the thick veil of pride and self - deceit and so things went on for many and many a long year . Thanks be to His grace who at last tore it away , and let in the light of truth ! 23 CHAPTER II . MY FIRST PLACE . FOR the 22 MY ...
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Page 122 - But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me ; he shall be free.
Page 98 - And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.
Page 42 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God : and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men ; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Page 40 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 46 - And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Page 21 - Mine, to chide me when I rove ; Mine, to show a Saviour's love ; Mine art thou to guide my feet, Mine, to judge, condemn, acquit.
Page 101 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 126 - Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams.
Page 112 - My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD ; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Page 64 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.