Domestic Fairy Tales & Allegories: Illustrating Human Life ...D. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 188 pages |
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Page 52
... present distress was neither grand enough nor far enough from home to satisfy the wide - stretched be- nevolence of the philosopher , who sat down within sight of the flames to work at a new pamphlet , whith now swallowed up his whole ...
... present distress was neither grand enough nor far enough from home to satisfy the wide - stretched be- nevolence of the philosopher , who sat down within sight of the flames to work at a new pamphlet , whith now swallowed up his whole ...
Page 56
... present into the bargain . Indeed , a man must be a philosopher with a vengeance , if when he sees a house on fire , he stays to consider whether the owner has offended him . Oh , Mr. Fantom , I will forgive you still , if you will ...
... present into the bargain . Indeed , a man must be a philosopher with a vengeance , if when he sees a house on fire , he stays to consider whether the owner has offended him . Oh , Mr. Fantom , I will forgive you still , if you will ...
Page 59
... in a deity who permits so much evil in the present world , than one who threatens eternal punishment in the next . Trueman . What ! shall mortal man be more mer . ciful than God ? Do you pretend to be more HISTORY OF MR . FANTOM . 59.
... in a deity who permits so much evil in the present world , than one who threatens eternal punishment in the next . Trueman . What ! shall mortal man be more mer . ciful than God ? Do you pretend to be more HISTORY OF MR . FANTOM . 59.
Page 66
... present case , but I will answer you in the words of a good man speaking of the penitent thief : There is one such instance given that nobody might despair , and there is but one , that nobody might presume . " " " III . THE TWO ...
... present case , but I will answer you in the words of a good man speaking of the penitent thief : There is one such instance given that nobody might despair , and there is but one , that nobody might presume . " " " III . THE TWO ...
Page 68
... present day , and never took the future into the account . His wife managed him entirely , and as she was really notable he did not trouble his head about anything farther . If she had been careless in her dairy , he would have storm ...
... present day , and never took the future into the account . His wife managed him entirely , and as she was really notable he did not trouble his head about anything farther . If she had been careless in her dairy , he would have storm ...
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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...