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... leave them to be tossed about , and , by that means , torn and dirtied . He never forgets to pray for the blessing of God on himself , on his school - fellows , and on his teacher ; for he knows that the blessing of God is necessary to ...
... leave them to be tossed about , and , by that means , torn and dirtied . He never forgets to pray for the blessing of God on himself , on his school - fellows , and on his teacher ; for he knows that the blessing of God is necessary to ...
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... leaves . Full of pas- sion and jealousy , he ran to his father , and said , " Father , what sort of a tree is that which you have given me ? It is as dry as a broomstick ; and I shall not have ten apples on it . My brother you have used ...
... leaves . Full of pas- sion and jealousy , he ran to his father , and said , " Father , what sort of a tree is that which you have given me ? It is as dry as a broomstick ; and I shall not have ten apples on it . My brother you have used ...
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... delight to bless . That deeper shade shall break away ; That deeper sleep shall leave mine eyes ; Thy light shall give eternal day ; Thy love , the rapture of the skies . LESSON X. Nature's Music . - ANONYMOUS . NAY , 24 NATIONAL READER .
... delight to bless . That deeper shade shall break away ; That deeper sleep shall leave mine eyes ; Thy light shall give eternal day ; Thy love , the rapture of the skies . LESSON X. Nature's Music . - ANONYMOUS . NAY , 24 NATIONAL READER .
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... leave the Creator without a witness . He only hides his own splendor for a while , to disclose to you a more glorious scene ; to show you the immensity of space filled with worlds unnumbered , that your imaginations may wander , without ...
... leave the Creator without a witness . He only hides his own splendor for a while , to disclose to you a more glorious scene ; to show you the immensity of space filled with worlds unnumbered , that your imaginations may wander , without ...
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... leave to introduce it , first stating the incidents neces- sary for understanding it . In the spring of the year 1774 , a robbery was commit- ted by some Indians on certain land adventurers on the river Ohio . The whites , in that ...
... leave to introduce it , first stating the incidents neces- sary for understanding it . In the spring of the year 1774 , a robbery was commit- ted by some Indians on certain land adventurers on the river Ohio . The whites , in that ...
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Page 142 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 24 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 21 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 142 - So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?
Page 143 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Page 67 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it.
Page 142 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy ? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Page 67 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life, consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Page 232 - There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 193 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...