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... faces , happy hearts , young and old blending in a common effort to please and to be pleased - determined that in their own circle at least , and for the nonce , all should be in harmony with the text , ' Peace on earth , ' & c . There ...
... faces , happy hearts , young and old blending in a common effort to please and to be pleased - determined that in their own circle at least , and for the nonce , all should be in harmony with the text , ' Peace on earth , ' & c . There ...
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... face invariably cheerful , one temper never ruffled , one heart always affectionate , makes summer in a house . It is the early bird that catches the worm . Seventeen twentieths of the cotton imported into England , which amount now to ...
... face invariably cheerful , one temper never ruffled , one heart always affectionate , makes summer in a house . It is the early bird that catches the worm . Seventeen twentieths of the cotton imported into England , which amount now to ...
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... face streaming with tears , interceding with God for his dying sovereign . When the hollow sound of the fatal axe reached him , he , too , swooned and fell , in appearance as lifeless as if he himself had received the stroke . - Ibid ...
... face streaming with tears , interceding with God for his dying sovereign . When the hollow sound of the fatal axe reached him , he , too , swooned and fell , in appearance as lifeless as if he himself had received the stroke . - Ibid ...
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... face of Moses shone with glory , everyone became aware of it except himself . Thus should it be in respect of the brightness of character in a Christian . ' He clothed himself with cursing as with a garment 56 Five Minutes to spare .
... face of Moses shone with glory , everyone became aware of it except himself . Thus should it be in respect of the brightness of character in a Christian . ' He clothed himself with cursing as with a garment 56 Five Minutes to spare .
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... face may not be perfect ; but you will allow she has beautiful feet and hands . ' ' Ah ! ' was the reply , ' I see you are reduced to extremities , I must not be hard upon you . ' Sir Fowell Buxton , who was a first - rate shot , took ...
... face may not be perfect ; but you will allow she has beautiful feet and hands . ' ' Ah ! ' was the reply , ' I see you are reduced to extremities , I must not be hard upon you . ' Sir Fowell Buxton , who was a first - rate shot , took ...
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Página 292 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Página 378 - But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them, that God bids us do good for evil : And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Página 141 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Página 389 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Página 147 - Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence!
Página 212 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 377 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Página 173 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, — I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Página 147 - ... interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions of the north all the luxuries of the south ; has diffused the light of knowledge and the charities of cultivated life ; and has thus bound together those scattered portions of the human race, between which nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier.
Página 79 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.