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... answer first ? " asked Ida , laughingly . " I will begin with the last . We have hired old Matthew the fiddler , and we shall have a glorious dance , I hope . There will be , I think , about forty people several are coming from ...
... answer first ? " asked Ida , laughingly . " I will begin with the last . We have hired old Matthew the fiddler , and we shall have a glorious dance , I hope . There will be , I think , about forty people several are coming from ...
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... answered . " Papa , how you delight in teasing me ! " " I will go and see what the glass says for himself , " said Fanny ; and away she rushed ( for she never walked quietly if she could help it ) into the hall , to look at the weather ...
... answered . " Papa , how you delight in teasing me ! " " I will go and see what the glass says for himself , " said Fanny ; and away she rushed ( for she never walked quietly if she could help it ) into the hall , to look at the weather ...
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... answered ; but an answer will come at last , Fanny so pray on , nothing doubting . CHAPTER II . " HERE it is coming , and 10 A CHANGE AND.
... answered ; but an answer will come at last , Fanny so pray on , nothing doubting . CHAPTER II . " HERE it is coming , and 10 A CHANGE AND.
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... answered Ida ; " but I am afraid bad will be the best . But let us not think of parting until the time comes : so go and sing that pretty new song of yours , like a good girl . " At ten o'clock they all separated , and many heads peered ...
... answered Ida ; " but I am afraid bad will be the best . But let us not think of parting until the time comes : so go and sing that pretty new song of yours , like a good girl . " At ten o'clock they all separated , and many heads peered ...
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... answered Lottie . " I dare say you are quite as bad . " " Am I ? Well , Connie to - day has been my young man ; and I'd a great deal rather have her than that stupid , insipid Mr. Stone . " " He is a very nice man , and you shan't say a ...
... answered Lottie . " I dare say you are quite as bad . " " Am I ? Well , Connie to - day has been my young man ; and I'd a great deal rather have her than that stupid , insipid Mr. Stone . " " He is a very nice man , and you shan't say a ...
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Page 13 - And what shall I more say ? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae ; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets...
Page 13 - THE PEEP OF DAY, or a series of the earliest religious Instruction, the Infant Mind is capable of receiving, with verses illustrative of the subjects, 1 vol. 18mo. with engravings, $0 50 LINE UPON LINE, by the author of
Page 273 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 15 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 128 - There are briers besetting every path, That call for patient care ; There is a cross in every lot, And an earnest need for prayer ; But a lowly heart that leans on Thee Is happy anywhere. In a service which Thy will appoints, There are no bonds for me ; For my inmost heart is taught ' the truth That makes Thy children ' free ; ' And a life of self-renouncing love Is a life of liberty.
Page 10 - They are, in truth, as appears to us, compositions of very rare merit, and realise a notion we have always entertained, that a sermon for our rural congregations there somewhere was, if it could be hit off, which in language should be familiar without being plain, and in matter solid without being abstruse."— Quarterly Review.
Page 16 - The object of this Work is to afford consolation under the various trials of mind and body to which all are exposed, by a Selection of Texts and Passages from Holy Scripture, and Extracts from Old and Modern Authors, in Prose and Poetry, with a Selection of Prayers adapted to the same.
Page 20 - Reading without Tears; or, a Pleasant Mode of Learning to Read. By the Author of "Peep of Day,
Page 2 - EXEMPLA NECESSARIA; or, Elementary Latin Exercises on all the Parts of Speech, and the Substance of Syntax; containing English Words and Sentences to be turned into Latin, Latin into English, and numerous Examination Questions to be entered on with the Accidence. With an Introduction.
Page 149 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.