Now and Then: Through a Glass, DarklyHarper, 1848 - 312 pages |
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... wife , who had been every way worthy of him , the first great sorrow of his life . After twenty years spent together in happiness greater than tongue could tell , it had pleased God , who had given her to him , to take her away ...
... wife , who had been every way worthy of him , the first great sorrow of his life . After twenty years spent together in happiness greater than tongue could tell , it had pleased God , who had given her to him , to take her away ...
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... wife of his son . That son , however , loved her tenderly ; and with , perhaps , a more last- ing affection than ever he might have entertained for her whose place she had so unexpectedly come to occupy . Both he and his father engaged ...
... wife of his son . That son , however , loved her tenderly ; and with , perhaps , a more last- ing affection than ever he might have entertained for her whose place she had so unexpectedly come to occupy . Both he and his father engaged ...
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... wife , in whose weak arms lay the injured infant , gently leaned down her head , and kissed its pale unconscious cheek , with emotions which none but a mother could feel . To her , and to her husband , their poor child became infinitely ...
... wife , in whose weak arms lay the injured infant , gently leaned down her head , and kissed its pale unconscious cheek , with emotions which none but a mother could feel . To her , and to her husband , their poor child became infinitely ...
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... wife , and thought of her privations , borne with appa- rently a cheerful indifference , which quite vanished the instant that his back was turned . Many marks of substantial kindness were , with delicate consideration , forced upon ...
... wife , and thought of her privations , borne with appa- rently a cheerful indifference , which quite vanished the instant that his back was turned . Many marks of substantial kindness were , with delicate consideration , forced upon ...
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... wife ? " " No , good father - but now I do , " she replied— " And why is it ? " " There is a reason for it , Sarah ; that thou mayest rely on . She perhaps was not let into her husband's prosperity and rejoicing , " he looked at her ...
... wife ? " " No , good father - but now I do , " she replied— " And why is it ? " " There is a reason for it , Sarah ; that thou mayest rely on . She perhaps was not let into her husband's prosperity and rejoicing , " he looked at her ...
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Page 388 - And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 451 - ... to cause law and justice, in mercy, to be executed in all his judgments ; to maintain the laws of " God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law...
Page 310 - For the Lord will not cast off for ever : but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
Page 24 - And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
Page 362 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your heart forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Page 24 - And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
Page 129 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 131 - ... truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!