Domestic Tales and Allegories: Illustrating Human LifeD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 180 pages |
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... desired him to go on freely , for that it was a pleasure to him to meet with a plain man , who , without any kind of learning but what he had got from the Bible , was able to talk so well on a subject in which all men , high and low ...
... desired him to go on freely , for that it was a pleasure to him to meet with a plain man , who , without any kind of learning but what he had got from the Bible , was able to talk so well on a subject in which all men , high and low ...
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... desired Mary to go on . So she continued : " You must know , sir , that both of us , next to a sin , dread a debt , and indeed , in some cases a debt is a sin ; but with all our care and pains , we have never been able quite to pay off ...
... desired Mary to go on . So she continued : " You must know , sir , that both of us , next to a sin , dread a debt , and indeed , in some cases a debt is a sin ; but with all our care and pains , we have never been able quite to pay off ...
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... desired the shepherd to tell him how he contrived to keep up a sense of divine things in his own mind , and in that of his family , with so little leisure , and so little reading . " Oh ! as to that , sir , " said the shepherd , " we do ...
... desired the shepherd to tell him how he contrived to keep up a sense of divine things in his own mind , and in that of his family , with so little leisure , and so little reading . " Oh ! as to that , sir , " said the shepherd , " we do ...
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... desired to set any poor man much above his natural condition , but it is a pleasure to me to lend him such assistance as may make that con- dition more easy to himself , and put him in a way which shall call him to the performance of ...
... desired to set any poor man much above his natural condition , but it is a pleasure to me to lend him such assistance as may make that con- dition more easy to himself , and put him in a way which shall call him to the performance of ...
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... desired that it might be one who was not too strict , for Jack had been brought up tenderly , was a meek boy , and could not bear to be contradicted in anything . This is the common notion of meekness among people who do not take up ...
... desired that it might be one who was not too strict , for Jack had been brought up tenderly , was a meek boy , and could not bear to be contradicted in anything . This is the common notion of meekness among people who do not take up ...
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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...