All the Year Round

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Chapman and Hall, 1889

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Page 497 - Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Page 533 - ild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Page 31 - Twiller — a true philosopher, for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, 'the cares and perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for years, without feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had...
Page 497 - Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay and was fast asleep.
Page 416 - I shall do well" ; and taking him in his arms said, "Thou hast ever been an honest man, and I hope God will bless thee and make thee a happy servant to my son...
Page 434 - And can I ever bid these joys farewell? Yes, I must pass them for a nobler life, Where I may find the agonies, the strife Of human hearts: for lo!
Page 31 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 417 - I crept up softly and stood upon the deck by my husband's side, as free from sickness and fear as, I confess, from discretion ; but it was the effect of that passion which I could never master.

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