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... I think this will do , ( arranging the trimming . ) ANNA . Oh , delightfully . Dear Gertrude , how perfect is your taste ! And yet to give up every thing to sit moping here ! GER . Not moping , Anna . I never knew THE DECISION . 33.
... I think this will do , ( arranging the trimming . ) ANNA . Oh , delightfully . Dear Gertrude , how perfect is your taste ! And yet to give up every thing to sit moping here ! GER . Not moping , Anna . I never knew THE DECISION . 33.
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... give you pain , Mamma . I wish you felt as vividly as I do the motives which force me to do SO . Mrs. ABER . Well , Gertrude , no more of this . Is the dress ready ? GER . I have arranged it so that Morley can- 36 THE DECISION .
... give you pain , Mamma . I wish you felt as vividly as I do the motives which force me to do SO . Mrs. ABER . Well , Gertrude , no more of this . Is the dress ready ? GER . I have arranged it so that Morley can- 36 THE DECISION .
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... give up what you sigh after , and what surely must be inno- cent ? GER . You mistake the cause of my sighing , Anna . But , good night ; you see Mamma is im- patient to be gone . Mrs. ABER . And pray , Gertrude , what was the cause of ...
... give up what you sigh after , and what surely must be inno- cent ? GER . You mistake the cause of my sighing , Anna . But , good night ; you see Mamma is im- patient to be gone . Mrs. ABER . And pray , Gertrude , what was the cause of ...
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... make you feel what suffering it is to me to give you pain . Mrs. ABER . I do not know how it is , Ger- trude , but there is something strangely over- powering in your enthusiasm . You will infect But good 42 THE DECISION .
... make you feel what suffering it is to me to give you pain . Mrs. ABER . I do not know how it is , Ger- trude , but there is something strangely over- powering in your enthusiasm . You will infect But good 42 THE DECISION .
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... give up some of those things , in the indulgence of which I felt myself most cri- minal . GER . I do believe you , my dear Edward . I believe implicitly whatever you tell me . EDW . But it was only two days ago , Gertrude , that you so ...
... give up some of those things , in the indulgence of which I felt myself most cri- minal . GER . I do believe you , my dear Edward . I believe implicitly whatever you tell me . EDW . But it was only two days ago , Gertrude , that you so ...
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Page 327 - IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Page 215 - But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ...
Page 214 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight : for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Page 235 - In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Page 236 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Page 328 - And I will kill her children with death ; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts : and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Page 196 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?
Page 215 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Page 227 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith...
Page 236 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.