The Ladies' Repository, Volume 18L. Swormstedt and J.H. Power, 1858 |
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... thing but the dampness , and gloom , and desola- tion within me . I leaned back on my seat , and O , aunt Barbara , did ever a woman weep tears from such an aching heart as mine was ! We reached home at last . I have wiped my eyes , and ...
... thing but the dampness , and gloom , and desola- tion within me . I leaned back on my seat , and O , aunt Barbara , did ever a woman weep tears from such an aching heart as mine was ! We reached home at last . I have wiped my eyes , and ...
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... thing you meet is soiled ; where the room , cook- ing utensils , and the person of the cook indicate a want of particularity and decency . You can not avoid the suspicion that every thing is not exactly right with your breakfast . You ...
... thing you meet is soiled ; where the room , cook- ing utensils , and the person of the cook indicate a want of particularity and decency . You can not avoid the suspicion that every thing is not exactly right with your breakfast . You ...
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... thing else . Here we have only room to say that the safe course lies between the extremes . Undue familiarity will certainly lead to contempt and general disobedi- ence to orders . It is to be regretted that what would otherwise be ...
... thing else . Here we have only room to say that the safe course lies between the extremes . Undue familiarity will certainly lead to contempt and general disobedi- ence to orders . It is to be regretted that what would otherwise be ...
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... things alone that you will love. He had known her all her life , and so he began , in his cordial , familiar manner ... thing for an excuse . But I am not so easily blinded as you think . I've watched you before when Grace has been here ...
... things alone that you will love. He had known her all her life , and so he began , in his cordial , familiar manner ... thing for an excuse . But I am not so easily blinded as you think . I've watched you before when Grace has been here ...
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... thing as God ought to be ashamed to send upon the earth . I am accustomed to say these same things to my friend Briggs . And then , sometimes , I am wont to assume a more direct style of talk , and to say to him : I have got you now ...
... thing as God ought to be ashamed to send upon the earth . I am accustomed to say these same things to my friend Briggs . And then , sometimes , I am wont to assume a more direct style of talk , and to say to him : I have got you now ...
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Page 149 - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die : for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Page 97 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 186 - I am nearer home to-day Than I ever have been before ; Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions be ; Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the crystal sea ; Nearer the bound of life, Where we lay our burdens down ; Nearer leaving the cross, Nearer gaining the crown.
Page 98 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 99 - And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know.
Page 48 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 317 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 404 - I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, 7. And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 99 - And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Page 315 - Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison ; and make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat ; that my soul may bless thee before I die.