The new cyclopædia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1872 |
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... mother Lydia to work , and she gives us a piece of bread for our labour , for our parents are are at home , we have to dig for a great way off ; and when they roots in the fields to satisfy our hunger , for they are very poor , and have ...
... mother Lydia to work , and she gives us a piece of bread for our labour , for our parents are are at home , we have to dig for a great way off ; and when they roots in the fields to satisfy our hunger , for they are very poor , and have ...
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... mother , who has not replied , I perceive , sir , you would a rag to wrap round her new - born not have allowed the insolent babe ! - " " I cannot to - day ! " offender time to acknowledge his " There is a daughter , who , though fault ...
... mother , who has not replied , I perceive , sir , you would a rag to wrap round her new - born not have allowed the insolent babe ! - " " I cannot to - day ! " offender time to acknowledge his " There is a daughter , who , though fault ...
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... Mother . - A story is crous , and often playfully sarcastic . told of a gentleman in America who As they walked along toward home , was going to a seamen's meeting she began to make some amusing and in a mariners ' chapel . Seeing a ...
... Mother . - A story is crous , and often playfully sarcastic . told of a gentleman in America who As they walked along toward home , was going to a seamen's meeting she began to make some amusing and in a mariners ' chapel . Seeing a ...
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... mother , and their love of country . They prayed for each other , for friends , and especially for their mother . Soon the younger died . The elder , blind from a continued to speak encouraging - Jaques Coëtier , a French 60 THE NEW ...
... mother , and their love of country . They prayed for each other , for friends , and especially for their mother . Soon the younger died . The elder , blind from a continued to speak encouraging - Jaques Coëtier , a French 60 THE NEW ...
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... mother had been left they again determined in council a widow with three children , a boy that the Great Spirit did not speak about ten years of age , her brother , to them through that man , because pleaded very hard for one for him ...
... mother had been left they again determined in council a widow with three children , a boy that the Great Spirit did not speak about ten years of age , her brother , to them through that man , because pleaded very hard for one for him ...
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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...