Domestic Tales and Allegories: Illustrating Human LifeD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 180 pages |
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... late for church , that it was but who could catch the first stroke of the bell , and be first ready . He had always taught them to think that nothing was more indecent than to get into church after it was begun ; for as the service ...
... late for church , that it was but who could catch the first stroke of the bell , and be first ready . He had always taught them to think that nothing was more indecent than to get into church after it was begun ; for as the service ...
Page 39
... late in life — that of thinking that what he did not know himself was equally new to others ; and he was apt to fancy that he and the author he was reading were the only two people in the world who knew anything . This book led to the ...
... late in life — that of thinking that what he did not know himself was equally new to others ; and he was apt to fancy that he and the author he was reading were the only two people in the world who knew anything . This book led to the ...
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... late trav- ellers have inconceivably helped on the cause of the new philosophy in their ludicrous narratives of cre- dulity , miracles , indulgences , and processions , in po- pish countries , all which they ridicule under the broad and ...
... late trav- ellers have inconceivably helped on the cause of the new philosophy in their ludicrous narratives of cre- dulity , miracles , indulgences , and processions , in po- pish countries , all which they ridicule under the broad and ...
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... late servant William , who had been turned away for drunkenness , as related above , and who had also robbed his master of some wine and some spoons . Mr. Fantom , glancing his eye over the letter , said , " It is dated from Chelmsford ...
... late servant William , who had been turned away for drunkenness , as related above , and who had also robbed his master of some wine and some spoons . Mr. Fantom , glancing his eye over the letter , said , " It is dated from Chelmsford ...
Page 63
... late master a look so dreadful that Fantom wished for a moment that he had given up all hope of the spoons , rather than have exposed himself to such a scene . At length the poor wretch said , in a low voice that would have melted a ...
... late master a look so dreadful that Fantom wished for a moment that he had given up all hope of the spoons , rather than have exposed himself to such a scene . At length the poor wretch said , in a low voice that would have melted a ...
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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...