Domestic Tales and Allegories: Illustrating Human LifeD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 180 pages |
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... turn in her bed , she could contrive to patch a rag or two for her family . She was always saying , had it not been for the great good- ness of God , she might have had her hands lame as well as her feet , or the palsy instead of the ...
... turn in her bed , she could contrive to patch a rag or two for her family . She was always saying , had it not been for the great good- ness of God , she might have had her hands lame as well as her feet , or the palsy instead of the ...
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... turn to my wife . One Sunday afternoon when she was at the worst , as I was coming out of church , for I went one part of the day , and my eldest daughter the other , so my poor wife was never left alone ; as I was coming out of church ...
... turn to my wife . One Sunday afternoon when she was at the worst , as I was coming out of church , for I went one part of the day , and my eldest daughter the other , so my poor wife was never left alone ; as I was coming out of church ...
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... scarcely meet with anything in them but what he may turn to some good account . If one lives in the fear and love of God , almost everything one sees abroad will teach one to adore his power and THE SHEPHERD OF SALISBURY PLAIN . 31.
... scarcely meet with anything in them but what he may turn to some good account . If one lives in the fear and love of God , almost everything one sees abroad will teach one to adore his power and THE SHEPHERD OF SALISBURY PLAIN . 31.
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... turn out very good , or very happy . I have never had any great things in my power , but as far as I have been able , I have been always glad to assist the worthy . I have , however , never attempted or desired to set any poor man much ...
... turn out very good , or very happy . I have never had any great things in my power , but as far as I have been able , I have been always glad to assist the worthy . I have , however , never attempted or desired to set any poor man much ...
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... turn the Sabbath into a day of some little profit to your family , by doing , as I hope , a great deal of good to the souls of others . The rest of the week you will work as usual . The difference of rent be- tween this house and the ...
... turn the Sabbath into a day of some little profit to your family , by doing , as I hope , a great deal of good to the souls of others . The rest of the week you will work as usual . The difference of rent be- tween this house and the ...
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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...