The Successful Merchant: Sketches of the Life of Mr. Samuel Budgett ...Hamilton, Adams, 1852 - 392 pages |
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Page 38
... mother having told us of it , we were in full expectation , toward evening , of my father's return ; and a little before dusk , as we were all looking out , big with expectation and hope , the gate flew open , and in rode my father on ...
... mother having told us of it , we were in full expectation , toward evening , of my father's return ; and a little before dusk , as we were all looking out , big with expectation and hope , the gate flew open , and in rode my father on ...
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... mother taking a shop which was termed ' the great shop on the cassy ' ( causeway ) . " Two years afterwards , this shop was left in the hands of a brother , many years older than he , and the son of GENIUS . 41 another mother . On this ...
... mother taking a shop which was termed ' the great shop on the cassy ' ( causeway ) . " Two years afterwards , this shop was left in the hands of a brother , many years older than he , and the son of GENIUS . 41 another mother . On this ...
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... mother . On this occasion the family removed to Coleford , " where , " he says , " my parents opened a small general shop . " The same benevolent Power which sends amongst mankind some qualified , by special genius , to advance their ...
... mother . On this occasion the family removed to Coleford , " where , " he says , " my parents opened a small general shop . " The same benevolent Power which sends amongst mankind some qualified , by special genius , to advance their ...
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... mother and said , ' Mother , may I scrape up that treacle , and sell it for myself ? ' Having gained her consent , I set to work , scraped it up as clean as possible , and sold it for three- halfpence . Thus , by little and little , my ...
... mother and said , ' Mother , may I scrape up that treacle , and sell it for myself ? ' Having gained her consent , I set to work , scraped it up as clean as possible , and sold it for three- halfpence . Thus , by little and little , my ...
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... Mother , here's a pair of stays . I have sold the donkey ; Mrs. Ellis will call and pay five shillings ; be sure and not let her have the stays without the money . ' The donkey , however , unfortunately died ; and she wished to have the ...
... Mother , here's a pair of stays . I have sold the donkey ; Mrs. Ellis will call and pay five shillings ; be sure and not let her have the stays without the money . ' The donkey , however , unfortunately died ; and she wished to have the ...
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Page 181 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Page 366 - But seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you ? Dare you believe this promise or not ? I DARE : and will act accordingly, by God's assistance.
Page 261 - Thee may I set at my right hand, Whose eyes my inmost substance see ; And labour on at thy command, And offer all my works to thee.
Page 389 - There is my house and portion fair ; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home : For me my elder brethren stay, And angels beckon me away, And Jesus bids me come.
Page 356 - O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen.
Page 137 - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: "I will guide thee with mine eye.
Page 371 - Jesus, my great High Priest, Offered His blood and died; My guilty conscience seeks No sacrifice beside : His powerful blood did once atone, And now it pleads before the throne.
Page 3 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 372 - For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better; Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.