Domestic Fairy Tales & Allegories: Illustrating Human Life ...D. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 188 pages |
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... thought so much about his money , or his trade , or public news , as at other times , that he might with more ease and satisfaction enjoy the pious thought which the wonderful works of the great Maker of heaven and earth are intended to ...
... thought so much about his money , or his trade , or public news , as at other times , that he might with more ease and satisfaction enjoy the pious thought which the wonderful works of the great Maker of heaven and earth are intended to ...
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... thought it would be on the morrow . " It will be such weather as pleases me , " answered the shepherd . Though the answer was delivered in the mildest and most civil tone that could be imagined , the gentleman thought the words ...
... thought it would be on the morrow . " It will be such weather as pleases me , " answered the shepherd . Though the answer was delivered in the mildest and most civil tone that could be imagined , the gentleman thought the words ...
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... thought warmed my poor heart in the coldest night , and filled me with more joy and thank- fulness than the best supper could have done . " Here the shepherd stopped , for he began to feel that he had made too free , and talked too long ...
... thought warmed my poor heart in the coldest night , and filled me with more joy and thank- fulness than the best supper could have done . " Here the shepherd stopped , for he began to feel that he had made too free , and talked too long ...
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... thought it no great matter neither . " While they were in this part of the discourse , a fine , plump , cherry - cheek little girl ran up out of breath , with a smile on her young happy face , and without taking any notice of the ...
... thought it no great matter neither . " While they were in this part of the discourse , a fine , plump , cherry - cheek little girl ran up out of breath , with a smile on her young happy face , and without taking any notice of the ...
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... thought I should have lost her , in a violent fit of the rheumatism , caught by going to work too soon after her lying - in , I fear ; for ' tis but a bleak coldish place , as you may see , sir , in winter , and sometimes the snow lies ...
... thought I should have lost her , in a violent fit of the rheumatism , caught by going to work too soon after her lying - in , I fear ; for ' tis but a bleak coldish place , as you may see , sir , in winter , and sometimes the snow lies ...
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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...