The new cyclopædia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1872 |
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... desired effect ; and these noblemen , fully sensible of its force , immediately quitted their play , and entered into conversation more rational , and better suited to the dignity of their characters . 7. Looking at the Clock . - While ...
... desired effect ; and these noblemen , fully sensible of its force , immediately quitted their play , and entered into conversation more rational , and better suited to the dignity of their characters . 7. Looking at the Clock . - While ...
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... desired you she has left me a legacy ; " at the to be here precisely at such an same time adding , There are hour : it is now five minutes past those of her own family who stand the time . You know that I am more in need of it than I do ...
... desired you she has left me a legacy ; " at the to be here precisely at such an same time adding , There are hour : it is now five minutes past those of her own family who stand the time . You know that I am more in need of it than I do ...
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... desired his wife to give him a sum of money ; and when she informed him they had none left , he immediately seized a cup of some value , which acci- dentally stood within his reach , and , giving it to the poor man , bade him go and ...
... desired his wife to give him a sum of money ; and when she informed him they had none left , he immediately seized a cup of some value , which acci- dentally stood within his reach , and , giving it to the poor man , bade him go and ...
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... desired he would remove that dangerous weapon , and tell him fairly his condition . " Sir , sir ! " with great agitation cried the youth , " no words - ' tis not a time —your money instantly ! " " Hear me , young man , " said the Arch ...
... desired he would remove that dangerous weapon , and tell him fairly his condition . " Sir , sir ! " with great agitation cried the youth , " no words - ' tis not a time —your money instantly ! " " Hear me , young man , " said the Arch ...
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... desired . " Wesley replied as follows : - " Sir , -I have two silver tea - spoons at London , and two at Bristol ; this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread . - I am ...
... desired . " Wesley replied as follows : - " Sir , -I have two silver tea - spoons at London , and two at Bristol ; this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread . - I am ...
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Page 543 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Page 229 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 363 - I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be also.
Page 18 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 329 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Page 19 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Page 196 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Page 477 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 479 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 488 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee...