Our Birthdays, and how to Improve Them, EtcLondon; E.P. Dutton & Company: New York, 1881 - 192 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 30
Page 6
... Margaret's Arbour - The False- hood detected - The Sin of Lying , PAGE 888 113 136 CHAPTER VIII . Mrs. Johnston's Farm - yard - Consequences of Disobe- dience - The Sprained Ankle - Obedience and Disobe- dience , CHAPTER IX . Phillis ...
... Margaret's Arbour - The False- hood detected - The Sin of Lying , PAGE 888 113 136 CHAPTER VIII . Mrs. Johnston's Farm - yard - Consequences of Disobe- dience - The Sprained Ankle - Obedience and Disobe- dience , CHAPTER IX . Phillis ...
Page 98
... Margaret always mends her own things regularly every week , and Emily , and some others . ' ' My mamma , ' said Louisa , ' is not rich either . I have heard her say that she does not know how to get through all the needlework for so ...
... Margaret always mends her own things regularly every week , and Emily , and some others . ' ' My mamma , ' said Louisa , ' is not rich either . I have heard her say that she does not know how to get through all the needlework for so ...
Page 108
... Margaret Wentworth had been much interested in hearing an account of all the birthday verses , and of the change for the better which had been wrought in Jane , in Ellen , and Louisa more parti- cularly . Lena had been telling her about ...
... Margaret Wentworth had been much interested in hearing an account of all the birthday verses , and of the change for the better which had been wrought in Jane , in Ellen , and Louisa more parti- cularly . Lena had been telling her about ...
Page 109
... Margaret , ' said Lena . for you ; but , first , we must consider what is your greatest failing or defect , and then take a verse that will remind you to improve in that particular point . ' ' You ought to know in what I fail better ...
... Margaret , ' said Lena . for you ; but , first , we must consider what is your greatest failing or defect , and then take a verse that will remind you to improve in that particular point . ' ' You ought to know in what I fail better ...
Page 111
... Margaret , ' that you are tolerant , and I am intolerant ; and I must look out for myself some verse or verses which ... Margaret held in her hand , and turned to the fifth chapter of St. Matthew . Will this do : " Blessed are the meek ...
... Margaret , ' that you are tolerant , and I am intolerant ; and I must look out for myself some verse or verses which ... Margaret held in her hand , and turned to the fifth chapter of St. Matthew . Will this do : " Blessed are the meek ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adventures afraid African Wanderers Amelia amusing anger Annie's arbour asked Author BARBARA HUTTON beauty Bertha better Bible birthday verse book of Proverbs Boy's Own Paper Carry CHAPTER Chromolithography cloth elegant coloured Illustrations cottage cried Annie Crown 8vo dare say dear Annie dinner disobedience drawing E. P. DUTTON Edition fault Fcap feel friends FRISTON G. A. HENTY garden gilt edges gipsy give glad happy HARRISON WEIR holidays hope idle Jane Johnston Laura lessons little girl look Louisa mamma Margaret Mary mean Miss Escott morocco mother needlework never nice Paper Boards Phillis Picture plain playground poor Pray pretty Price 6d remember replied Ellen returned scarcely Scott Shillings and Sixpence sorry sure Susan talk tell texts things THOMAS HOOD thought Three Shillings to-day to-morrow told vols walk whilst wish woman Young Zoë
Popular passages
Page 160 - Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 3 - Modern British Plutarch (The), or LIVES OF MEN DISTINGUISHED IN THE RECENT HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY FOR THEIR TALENTS, VIRTUES, AND ACHIEVEMENTS. By WC TAYLOR, LL.D.
Page 125 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 160 - WE receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, * and do sign him with the sign of the cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the Devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end.
Page 2 - Crown 8vo, gilt edges. The Day of Wonders. A MEDLEY OF SENSE AND NONSENSE. By M. SULLIVAN. 30 Illustrations by WG BROWNE. Harty the Wanderer; or, CONDUCT is FATE. A Tale by FARLEIGH OWEN.
Page 6 - Robins (The). By Mrs. TRIMMER. In Words of One Syllable. Edited by the Rev. CHARLES SWETE, MA Historical Acting Charades, or AMUSEMENTS FOR WINTER EVENINGS. By the Author of " Cat and Dog,'
Page 186 - A GLOSSARY OF BIOLOGICAL, ANATOMICAL, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL TERMS, for Teachers and Students in Schools and Classes connected with the Science and Art Department, and other Examining bodies. By THOMAS DUNMAN, Physiology Lecturer at the Birkbeck Institution and the Working Men's College. Crown 8vo., cloth, 2s.
Page 117 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Page 15 - MEANWELL IN RHYME. Fully Illustrated, cloth. Hand Shadows, to be thrown upon the Wall. Novel and amusing figures formed by the hand. By HENRY BURSILL. New and cheaper Edition. Twelfth Thousand. Two Series in one. (Or coloured Illustrations, Is.
Page 117 - He was taken from prison, and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation ? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence; neither was any deceit in his mouth.