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... 30 CHAPTER V. The first day at Grandfather's A Walk .. ...... 41 CHAPTER VI . ....... 62 CHAPTER VII . The Pond and the Powder - mill . Two Letters .. CHAPTER VIII . ...... 78 86 CHAPTER IX . PAGE 99 A Letter from Home .......
... 30 CHAPTER V. The first day at Grandfather's A Walk .. ...... 41 CHAPTER VI . ....... 62 CHAPTER VII . The Pond and the Powder - mill . Two Letters .. CHAPTER VIII . ...... 78 86 CHAPTER IX . PAGE 99 A Letter from Home .......
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... walking together in the garden ; and their younger sister Ruth was with them - sometimes running before them , sometimes walking behind them , and then begging to be carried a little way . She said , " Father , carry Ruth : Ruth tired ...
... walking together in the garden ; and their younger sister Ruth was with them - sometimes running before them , sometimes walking behind them , and then begging to be carried a little way . She said , " Father , carry Ruth : Ruth tired ...
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... walk along a rope , with nothing to support him but an- other rope which he held with one of his hands . You may fancy how very hard this would be for you to do , if the rope were only a very little way above the ground . But this was a ...
... walk along a rope , with nothing to support him but an- other rope which he held with one of his hands . You may fancy how very hard this would be for you to do , if the rope were only a very little way above the ground . But this was a ...
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... walk . There was a pretty field just opposite , with a path through it . We went into this field and sat under a tree , and then we looked into the paper bag which your kind mother had given to us before we left home . Yes , yes ; and ...
... walk . There was a pretty field just opposite , with a path through it . We went into this field and sat under a tree , and then we looked into the paper bag which your kind mother had given to us before we left home . Yes , yes ; and ...
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... walk . Mr. Hardy , therefore , had chosen this time for writing the promised letter to his little Emma . As soon as George saw his father coming towards him in the garden , he left his grand- mother's side , and ran to him shouting with ...
... walk . Mr. Hardy , therefore , had chosen this time for writing the promised letter to his little Emma . As soon as George saw his father coming towards him in the garden , he left his grand- mother's side , and ran to him shouting with ...
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Page 27 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 122 - For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Page 29 - But how my childhood runs to waste My sins, how great their sum ! Lord, give me pardon for the past, And strength for days to come. I lay my body down to sleep, Let angels guard my head, And through the hours of darkness keep Their watch around my bed. With cheerful heart I close mine eyes, Since thou wilt not remove : And in the morning let me rise Rejoicing in thy love.
Page 130 - Thus when the Christian pilgrim views, By faith, his mansion in the skies, The sight his fainting strength renews, And wings his speed to reach the prize.
Page 28 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 142 - And melt mine eyes to tears. 5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay The debt of love I owe : Here, Lord, I give myself away, — 'Tis all that I can do.
Page 43 - Ye lust and have not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Page 65 - My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Page 124 - Where I see the blind or lame, Deaf or dumb, I'll kindly treat them; I deserve to feel the same, If I mock, or hurt, or cheat them. If I meet with railing tongues. Why should I return them railing?
Page 62 - I pass'd, — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page ! A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.