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... To be sure , he was a little wild , she would say , but he would not make the worse man for that , for Jack had a good spirit of his own , and she would not have it broke , and so make a mope of the boy . The 2 . B The Two Shoemakers-Part ...
... To be sure , he was a little wild , she would say , but he would not make the worse man for that , for Jack had a good spirit of his own , and she would not have it broke , and so make a mope of the boy . The 2 . B The Two Shoemakers-Part ...
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... spirits with a bowl of punch . Just as they were taking the last glass , Jack happened to say that he was the best fives - player in the country . " That is lucky , " said the Andrew , " for there is a famous match now playing in the ...
... spirits with a bowl of punch . Just as they were taking the last glass , Jack happened to say that he was the best fives - player in the country . " That is lucky , " said the Andrew , " for there is a famous match now playing in the ...
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... spirits as far as related to the horse ; but as to his behaviour to his dying mother , it troubled him at times to the last day of his life , though he did all he could to forget it . He did not , however , go on at all better , nor did ...
... spirits as far as related to the horse ; but as to his behaviour to his dying mother , it troubled him at times to the last day of his life , though he did all he could to forget it . He did not , however , go on at all better , nor did ...
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... spirits , gaily singing by the way scraps of all the tunes he had picked up the night before from his new friends . The landlord opened the door himself , and re- proached him with no small surliness for not having kept his word with ...
... spirits , gaily singing by the way scraps of all the tunes he had picked up the night before from his new friends . The landlord opened the door himself , and re- proached him with no small surliness for not having kept his word with ...
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... spirits ; for he had no doubt but the case had fallen out of his pocket ; he said he would step to the public house and search for it , and would be back directly . Not one word of all this did the landlord believe , so in- convenient ...
... spirits ; for he had no doubt but the case had fallen out of his pocket ; he said he would step to the public house and search for it , and would be back directly . Not one word of all this did the landlord believe , so in- convenient ...
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Page 296 - A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another.
Page 321 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 224 - Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour ; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 73 - 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 87 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 359 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!
Page 85 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 121 - They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 143 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 132 - When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.