The Leisure Hour, Volume 6W. Stevens, printer, 1857 - Great Britain |
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... heart told me -that I should soon be motherless . THE MONTHS IN LONDON - JANUARY " What for , then , did you call me out of my IN London the new year is pretty sure to come warm bed , Mrs. Magrath ? " Mrs. Crane wished in with either ...
... heart told me -that I should soon be motherless . THE MONTHS IN LONDON - JANUARY " What for , then , did you call me out of my IN London the new year is pretty sure to come warm bed , Mrs. Magrath ? " Mrs. Crane wished in with either ...
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... heart's content . Meanwhile , the quarrel between her and her landlady had been apparently made up ; at any rate , the attic was retained for our sole use ; but an event occurred which caused it to blaze up afresh . It was not very long ...
... heart's content . Meanwhile , the quarrel between her and her landlady had been apparently made up ; at any rate , the attic was retained for our sole use ; but an event occurred which caused it to blaze up afresh . It was not very long ...
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... heart's wish for a long time . Suddenly our plans are defeated , and we find ourselves in a half - sized house , where eating , resting , sitting , and sleeping , are difficult , nor can we find our exit from this place . Weeping we ...
... heart's wish for a long time . Suddenly our plans are defeated , and we find ourselves in a half - sized house , where eating , resting , sitting , and sleeping , are difficult , nor can we find our exit from this place . Weeping we ...
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... heart . Bogey was now an inmate of the infirmary , being under medical treatment for some alleged disease of the chest , which seemed to interfere with its powers of respiration ; but which the doctor hinted to us was only an ...
... heart . Bogey was now an inmate of the infirmary , being under medical treatment for some alleged disease of the chest , which seemed to interfere with its powers of respiration ; but which the doctor hinted to us was only an ...
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... heart for me , and a sad heart for herself . All this , and more , entered my ears , as I rode on Peggy's back , or dragged along by her side ; and night after night , when our day's progress was duly reported , we slept as soundly on ...
... heart for me , and a sad heart for herself . All this , and more , entered my ears , as I rode on Peggy's back , or dragged along by her side ; and night after night , when our day's progress was duly reported , we slept as soundly on ...
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Page 184 - Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause...
Page 24 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 135 - On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 134 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 312 - Redeemer, who is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him.
Page 198 - And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 45 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice...
Page 420 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 120 - But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore : ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 186 - I, even I, am he that comforteth you : who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass...