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... happy in his daughters . Maria , who was the eldest , was gay , lively , and of a ready wit , and might have been termed pretty before she had the small - pox ; but that dreadful disease robbed her of a beauty , which perhaps she ...
... happy in his daughters . Maria , who was the eldest , was gay , lively , and of a ready wit , and might have been termed pretty before she had the small - pox ; but that dreadful disease robbed her of a beauty , which perhaps she ...
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... happy reception , as in him only has been my confidence . But alas , my love , I fear I am taking a long , an everlasting farewell of you and your poor father . A great and impassable gulf must for- ever separate us , unless God in his ...
... happy reception , as in him only has been my confidence . But alas , my love , I fear I am taking a long , an everlasting farewell of you and your poor father . A great and impassable gulf must for- ever separate us , unless God in his ...
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... happy , if he were not gay , brisk and merry . Miss Barnwell spent her time at her needle , in reading the Holy Scriptures , in attending upon divine worship , and in conversing with her aunt , who was a lady of an excellent ...
... happy , if he were not gay , brisk and merry . Miss Barnwell spent her time at her needle , in reading the Holy Scriptures , in attending upon divine worship , and in conversing with her aunt , who was a lady of an excellent ...
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... happy if my dear parent did but know and love the truth as well as Thomas Living- stone , even if he were in the same circumstances . Alas ! what is the most exalted sphere of life to us , if we are ig norant of the true God , and ...
... happy if my dear parent did but know and love the truth as well as Thomas Living- stone , even if he were in the same circumstances . Alas ! what is the most exalted sphere of life to us , if we are ig norant of the true God , and ...
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... happy in her mind , and her health is much improved . She has learned that best of lessons , to joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ : but I shall say the less on this subject , as she intends to write to you . Cannot you come and ...
... happy in her mind , and her health is much improved . She has learned that best of lessons , to joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ : but I shall say the less on this subject , as she intends to write to you . Cannot you come and ...
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Page 459 - O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, 'Behold your God!
Page 454 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 458 - He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Page 463 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 454 - And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Page 464 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 463 - If ye think good, give me my price ; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, "Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them!" And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
Page 457 - But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been of old, from everlasting.
Page 453 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 453 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the 7 P».