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... pleasure of seeing her leave my room with a more joyful countenance than she had entered it . It was impossible not to feel highly impressed in favour of the humble couple who had thus decided . It is a holy and beautiful tie , that of ...
... pleasure of seeing her leave my room with a more joyful countenance than she had entered it . It was impossible not to feel highly impressed in favour of the humble couple who had thus decided . It is a holy and beautiful tie , that of ...
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... pleasures , and their own wants are economized , in order to furnish or enlarge their means of assisting their fellow - creatures , there can be no doubt that real benevolence is the spring from which their actions flow . " Alice had ...
... pleasures , and their own wants are economized , in order to furnish or enlarge their means of assisting their fellow - creatures , there can be no doubt that real benevolence is the spring from which their actions flow . " Alice had ...
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... pleasures of the understanding are her delight . When she was about fifteen I determined on making a tour through England , Scotland , and Wales , which I knew would be beneficial to her in many ways ; for the habits of observation ...
... pleasures of the understanding are her delight . When she was about fifteen I determined on making a tour through England , Scotland , and Wales , which I knew would be beneficial to her in many ways ; for the habits of observation ...
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... pleasures of the coming evening , and returned in about half an hour to her mother , her dark sunny eyes beaming with all the good humour and gentleness which so distinguished her . " Not a fault , mamma ; not a pin out of place ...
... pleasures of the coming evening , and returned in about half an hour to her mother , her dark sunny eyes beaming with all the good humour and gentleness which so distinguished her . " Not a fault , mamma ; not a pin out of place ...
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... pleasure , but think how continual is the unhappiness you cause me by your negligence of all my reproofs , though convinced they are for your own good . You must spend the remainder of the evening alone ; and I hope self - communion and ...
... pleasure , but think how continual is the unhappiness you cause me by your negligence of all my reproofs , though convinced they are for your own good . You must spend the remainder of the evening alone ; and I hope self - communion and ...
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Page 62 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. 'And they shall be mine,' saith the Lord of hosts, 'in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Page 112 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind , and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Page 135 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
Page 2 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 152 - Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof : and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry : for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Page 116 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him; neither have we obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His Laws, which He set before us by His servants the Prophets.
Page 40 - Ghost, and that all standing in their lot may manifest that charity which " suffereth long and is kind, which envieth not. vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up...
Page 11 - The playful humour ; he could now endure (Himself grown sober in the vale of tears) And feel a parent's presence no restraint. But not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good, Is cause of half the poverty we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.
Page 26 - Thou hast — but on ocean, earth, or sea, The heart of a mother has gone with thee. There is not a grand inspiring thought, There is not a truth by wisdom taught, There is not a feeling pure and high, That may not be read in a mother's eye.
Page 88 - ... communion with the workers of iniquity. " What participation hath justice with injustice ? or what fellowship hath light with darkness ? or what concord hath Christ with Belial ? And what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever ?" (2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.) In matters not of religion the faithful may, no doubt, have intercourse with such heretics as are tolerated, and they are certainly not required or permitted to oppose the age in any respect in which the age is right. But...