My Earnings ; Or, The Story of Ann Ellison's LifeKnight and Son, 1859 - 172 pages |
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... wanted , she said she thought I might suit , for I was a capital hand at scrubbing floors , brightening tins , and blacking shoes . I have all my life taken a sort of pride in these things . I have been a real scrubber , not a mere ...
... wanted , she said she thought I might suit , for I was a capital hand at scrubbing floors , brightening tins , and blacking shoes . I have all my life taken a sort of pride in these things . I have been a real scrubber , not a mere ...
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... wanted to go and help at the house in Wood's Close , as I had done be- fore . The odd shillings that came in I handed to mother , who was always glad of them . When I was just upon fourteen , we heard of a place that was likely to suit ...
... wanted to go and help at the house in Wood's Close , as I had done be- fore . The odd shillings that came in I handed to mother , who was always glad of them . When I was just upon fourteen , we heard of a place that was likely to suit ...
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... wanted , instead of being ready before- hand . As for having meals sent up at the right time , it was quite out of the question ; I thought I had done well when I had the dinner on table only twenty minutes too late . Mistress took ...
... wanted , instead of being ready before- hand . As for having meals sent up at the right time , it was quite out of the question ; I thought I had done well when I had the dinner on table only twenty minutes too late . Mistress took ...
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... wanted . But a sad disappointment was before me . On reaching home , there were the five shillings , and a half- crown that master's mother , who was staying down at the house , had given me for a Christmas - box , because she said I ...
... wanted . But a sad disappointment was before me . On reaching home , there were the five shillings , and a half- crown that master's mother , who was staying down at the house , had given me for a Christmas - box , because she said I ...
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... wanted there any more . him about my wages . He said I ought to have seen to that before ; that it was not for him to pay me ; and that I must come upon the " assignees , " - that was what he called them . There seemed no help for it ...
... wanted there any more . him about my wages . He said I ought to have seen to that before ; that it was not for him to pay me ; and that I must come upon the " assignees , " - that was what he called them . There seemed no help for it ...
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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.