Domestic Fairy Tales & Allegories: Illustrating Human Life ...D. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 188 pages |
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... penitent thief : There is one such instance given that nobody might despair , and there is but one , that nobody might presume . " " " III . THE TWO SHOEMAKERS . JACK BROWN and JAMES 66 DOMESTIC TALES AND ALLEGORIES .
... penitent thief : There is one such instance given that nobody might despair , and there is but one , that nobody might presume . " " " III . THE TWO SHOEMAKERS . JACK BROWN and JAMES 66 DOMESTIC TALES AND ALLEGORIES .
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... Jack always preferred bird's - nesting and marbles to any other em- ployment ; he would trifle away the day , when his father thought he was at school , with any boys he could meet with , who were as idle as himself ; and he could never ...
... Jack always preferred bird's - nesting and marbles to any other em- ployment ; he would trifle away the day , when his father thought he was at school , with any boys he could meet with , who were as idle as himself ; and he could never ...
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... Jack , however , notwithstanding his idleness , picked up a little reading and writing , but never would learn to cast an account - that was too much labor . His mother was desirous he should continue at school , not so much for the ...
... Jack , however , notwithstanding his idleness , picked up a little reading and writing , but never would learn to cast an account - that was too much labor . His mother was desirous he should continue at school , not so much for the ...
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Illustrating Human Life Hannah More. make Jack a gentleman , and set him above his bro- thers . Farmer Brown still hoped , that though Jack was likely to make but an idle and ignorant farmer , yet he might make no bad tradesman , when he ...
Illustrating Human Life Hannah More. make Jack a gentleman , and set him above his bro- thers . Farmer Brown still hoped , that though Jack was likely to make but an idle and ignorant farmer , yet he might make no bad tradesman , when he ...
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... Jack , who was a wealthy farmer's son . His father had , it is true , been able to give him but very little schooling , for he was obliged to be put to work when quite a child . When very young he used to run of errands for Mr. Thom- as ...
... Jack , who was a wealthy farmer's son . His father had , it is true , been able to give him but very little schooling , for he was obliged to be put to work when quite a child . When very young he used to run of errands for Mr. Thom- as ...
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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...