Domestic Tales and Allegories: Illustrating Human LifeD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 180 pages |
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... Christian morals , with the exhibition of practical piety , not in the mandatory tone of the didactic moni tor , but in the exemplary portraitures of our constant associates , and the actual occurrences of ordinary life . Two of those ...
... Christian morals , with the exhibition of practical piety , not in the mandatory tone of the didactic moni tor , but in the exemplary portraitures of our constant associates , and the actual occurrences of ordinary life . Two of those ...
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... Christians have perished in prisons and dun- geons , in comparison of which my cottage is a palace ! The house is very well , sir ; and if the rain did not sometimes beat down upon us through the thatch when we are a - bed , I should ...
... Christians have perished in prisons and dun- geons , in comparison of which my cottage is a palace ! The house is very well , sir ; and if the rain did not sometimes beat down upon us through the thatch when we are a - bed , I should ...
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... Christian that I know . Last year I thought I should have lost her , in a violent fit of the rheumatism , caught by going to work too soon after her lying - in , I fear ; for ' tis but a bleak coldish place , as you may see , sir , in ...
... Christian that I know . Last year I thought I should have lost her , in a violent fit of the rheumatism , caught by going to work too soon after her lying - in , I fear ; for ' tis but a bleak coldish place , as you may see , sir , in ...
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... Christ- Now is there not much less difference between this supposed day and Christmas , when I should take possession of the estate and palace , than there is be- tween time and eternity , when I am sure of entering on a kingdom not ...
... Christ- Now is there not much less difference between this supposed day and Christmas , when I should take possession of the estate and palace , than there is be- tween time and eternity , when I am sure of entering on a kingdom not ...
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... Christ- mas holydays at the parsonage - house . I had always heard him spoken of as a plain frugal man , who lived close himself , but was remarked to give away more than any of his show - away neighbors . " Well ! I went home with ...
... Christ- mas holydays at the parsonage - house . I had always heard him spoken of as a plain frugal man , who lived close himself , but was remarked to give away more than any of his show - away neighbors . " Well ! I went home with ...
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Page 19 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 27 - Art Thou He that cometh or look we for another? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go your way and tell John the things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up and the poor have good tidings preached to them : and blessed is he whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in Me.
Page 136 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 12 - ... according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.
Page 17 - It seems to be a practical comment on that text which says, the rich and the poor meet together, the Lord is the maker of them all.
Page 117 - Let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him ; and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon.
Page 136 - But the end of all things is at hand : be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Page 151 - Giles and his boys stole regularly into her orchard, followed by their jack-asses. She was so deaf that she could not hear...