The Ladies' Repository, Volume 20L. Swormstedt and J.H. Power, 1860 |
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... True Christian - Original Sin - The Reject- ed Stone of the Builders - Were the Evangelists Illit- erate ? ........ .305 April . - The Temptation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Wilderness .. June . - Christ and his Brethren - The Money ...
... True Christian - Original Sin - The Reject- ed Stone of the Builders - Were the Evangelists Illit- erate ? ........ .305 April . - The Temptation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Wilderness .. June . - Christ and his Brethren - The Money ...
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... True Living , Maggie B. Stewart . .494 Hope Full of Immortality . 89 True Progression , Rev. W. G. W. Lewis .... .231 How with God 10 Uncle Shobek Leedum , Rev. J. L. Crane ... .475 Idleness .. ... 474 Use of Obstacles , J. Burroughs ...
... True Living , Maggie B. Stewart . .494 Hope Full of Immortality . 89 True Progression , Rev. W. G. W. Lewis .... .231 How with God 10 Uncle Shobek Leedum , Rev. J. L. Crane ... .475 Idleness .. ... 474 Use of Obstacles , J. Burroughs ...
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... true of every one . If one thinks he is a fool , he will expect to act out that character . If one thinks he is wise , he will at least try to act and speak like the wise , and the very trial is not inconsiderable . An owl will not bray ...
... true of every one . If one thinks he is a fool , he will expect to act out that character . If one thinks he is wise , he will at least try to act and speak like the wise , and the very trial is not inconsiderable . An owl will not bray ...
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... true meekness she may inherit the richest blessings . " Humility ever dwells with noble minds . It is a flower that prospers , not on poor and barren soils , but in ground that is beautiful . " Having become initiated into the secret of ...
... true meekness she may inherit the richest blessings . " Humility ever dwells with noble minds . It is a flower that prospers , not on poor and barren soils , but in ground that is beautiful . " Having become initiated into the secret of ...
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... true value , by reason of the glittering of their wealth , or the eminence of their position , and neglecting the worthy because they lack such appliances , than we should pause to consider ourselves , whether such persons are really ...
... true value , by reason of the glittering of their wealth , or the eminence of their position , and neglecting the worthy because they lack such appliances , than we should pause to consider ourselves , whether such persons are really ...
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Page 119 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 482 - ... our pride, and four times as much by our folly, and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice and something may be done for us ; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says.
Page 482 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears ; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
Page 365 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Page 121 - And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you ; depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the wind? blew and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 116 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?
Page 116 - And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold. And to the presence in the room he said, 'What writest thou?' - The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord. Answered, 'The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 119 - Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring ; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Page 169 - THERE is a glorious City in the Sea. The Sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible; and from the land we went, As to a floating City — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, So smoothly, silently...
Page 169 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream...