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... brought to trial before all that knew them , and the hazard he run of being convicted of felony : this they had only to look for - and so it turned out - for he was ordered to be transported . When the word transportation sounded in the ...
... brought to trial before all that knew them , and the hazard he run of being convicted of felony : this they had only to look for - and so it turned out - for he was ordered to be transported . When the word transportation sounded in the ...
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... brought me presents ev'ry day , And taught me pretty things to say ? My Father . Who taught me when a poor man came , To ask for something , in God's name , To give with all my heart the same ? My Father . And oh ! when I could read my ...
... brought me presents ev'ry day , And taught me pretty things to say ? My Father . Who taught me when a poor man came , To ask for something , in God's name , To give with all my heart the same ? My Father . And oh ! when I could read my ...
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... brought both of us to life again . " So saying , they stretched out their arms ; Robin bent to their embrace ; and mingling his tears with theirs , begged forgiveness for the grief which he had given them , and promised in future they ...
... brought both of us to life again . " So saying , they stretched out their arms ; Robin bent to their embrace ; and mingling his tears with theirs , begged forgiveness for the grief which he had given them , and promised in future they ...
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... brought to their father ; and they who brought it said , " This have we found : know now , whether it be thy son's coat or no . " And Jacob knew it , and said , " It is my son's coat : an evil beast hath devoured him : Joseph is ...
... brought to their father ; and they who brought it said , " This have we found : know now , whether it be thy son's coat or no . " And Jacob knew it , and said , " It is my son's coat : an evil beast hath devoured him : Joseph is ...
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... . Some of them are brought to such a degree of gentleness , as to suffer themselves to be handled and caressed THE WATER HOG . 911 gen - e - ral. Per - si - a Chi - na pe - ne - trate Ger - ma - ny. 82 BLAIR'S READING EXERCISES .
... . Some of them are brought to such a degree of gentleness , as to suffer themselves to be handled and caressed THE WATER HOG . 911 gen - e - ral. Per - si - a Chi - na pe - ne - trate Ger - ma - ny. 82 BLAIR'S READING EXERCISES .
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Page 147 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Page 77 - And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more ; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Page 150 - And Joseph went up to bury his father : and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Page 131 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 106 - The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand ; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.
Page 130 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 79 - It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him. Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
Page 131 - And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored ; and, lo, it is even in my sack : and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
Page 146 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one ; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 117 - Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: and there shall arise after them seven years of famine...