Domestic Fairy Tales & Allegories: Illustrating Human Life ...D. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 188 pages |
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... prayer and praise , and then forget the lowly but contented and thankful Saunders ? The narrator has superadded some circumstances with which he was not en- circled ; but his domestic habits of life , and his personal traits and social ...
... prayer and praise , and then forget the lowly but contented and thankful Saunders ? The narrator has superadded some circumstances with which he was not en- circled ; but his domestic habits of life , and his personal traits and social ...
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... prayers and good advice we are always sure of , and we are truly thankful for that , for a man must give , you know sir , according to what he hath , and not according to what he hath not . " " I am afraid , " said Mr. Johnson , " that ...
... prayers and good advice we are always sure of , and we are truly thankful for that , for a man must give , you know sir , according to what he hath , and not according to what he hath not . " " I am afraid , " said Mr. Johnson , " that ...
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... prayers , and I would work myself to a ' natomy , and live on one meal a day , to add any comfort to her valuable life ; indeed I have often done the last , and thought it no great matter neither . " While they were in this part of the ...
... prayers , and I would work myself to a ' natomy , and live on one meal a day , to add any comfort to her valuable life ; indeed I have often done the last , and thought it no great matter neither . " While they were in this part of the ...
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... prayer for God's blessing on the use of that book , what little knowledge is needful seems to come of course , as it were . And my chief study has been to bring the fruits of the Sunday reading into the week's business , and to keep up ...
... prayer for God's blessing on the use of that book , what little knowledge is needful seems to come of course , as it were . And my chief study has been to bring the fruits of the Sunday reading into the week's business , and to keep up ...
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... prayers of our church , by vain or profane lips ; and if it depended on me , there should be no such thing in the land as an idle , drunken , or irreligious parish clerk . Sorry I am to say that this matter is not always sufficiently ...
... prayers of our church , by vain or profane lips ; and if it depended on me , there should be no such thing in the land as an idle , drunken , or irreligious parish clerk . Sorry I am to say that this matter is not always sufficiently ...
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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...