Domestic Tales and Allegories: Illustrating Human LifeD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 180 pages |
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... de- ceived . If I meet with a laborer , hedging , ditching , or mending the highways , with his stockings and shirt tight and whole , however mean and bad his other garments are , I have seldom failed , on 6 DOMESTIC TALES AND ALLEGORIES .
... de- ceived . If I meet with a laborer , hedging , ditching , or mending the highways , with his stockings and shirt tight and whole , however mean and bad his other garments are , I have seldom failed , on 6 DOMESTIC TALES AND ALLEGORIES .
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... mean and frugal dress , than with his open honest countenance , which bore strong marks of health , cheerfulness , and spirit . Mr. Johnson , who was on a journey , and some- what fearful from the appearance of the sky , that rain was ...
... mean and frugal dress , than with his open honest countenance , which bore strong marks of health , cheerfulness , and spirit . Mr. Johnson , who was on a journey , and some- what fearful from the appearance of the sky , that rain was ...
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... means of those very occupations , raised them up husbands so famous in history , as Isaac , Jacob , and the prophet Moses . The shepherds were neither playing nor sleeping , but " watching their flocks , ” when they received the news of ...
... means of those very occupations , raised them up husbands so famous in history , as Isaac , Jacob , and the prophet Moses . The shepherds were neither playing nor sleeping , but " watching their flocks , ” when they received the news of ...
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... mean the greatest part . I have led but a lonely life , and have often had but little to eat , but my Bible has been meat , drink , and company to me , as I may say , and when want and trouble have come upon me , I don't know what I ...
... mean the greatest part . I have led but a lonely life , and have often had but little to eat , but my Bible has been meat , drink , and company to me , as I may say , and when want and trouble have come upon me , I don't know what I ...
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... means of attaching importance to insignificance occurred to him - that of getting into clubs and societies . To be connected with a party would at least make him known to that party , 38 DOMESTIC TALES AND ALLEGORIES . II. HISTORY OF MR ...
... means of attaching importance to insignificance occurred to him - that of getting into clubs and societies . To be connected with a party would at least make him known to that party , 38 DOMESTIC TALES AND ALLEGORIES . II. HISTORY OF MR ...
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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...