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... was just able to say , and then she burst into tears . " Poor child , " said Mrs. Gray ; " how could you sell your dear Papa's bird , that we have had so long ? " " I could hardly do it , " replied Ethel EARLY DAYS .
... was just able to say , and then she burst into tears . " Poor child , " said Mrs. Gray ; " how could you sell your dear Papa's bird , that we have had so long ? " " I could hardly do it , " replied Ethel EARLY DAYS .
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" I could hardly do it , " replied Ethel ; " but you looked so pale and ill , that I thought I must let her go to get food and fire for you . So cheer up , Mamma , and we shall yet have a happy Christmas . " After a while the tears ...
" I could hardly do it , " replied Ethel ; " but you looked so pale and ill , that I thought I must let her go to get food and fire for you . So cheer up , Mamma , and we shall yet have a happy Christmas . " After a while the tears ...
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... replied Freddy . His mother smiled . " Have you never heard the old saying , ' If at first you don't succeed , try , try , try again ? ' You should hear the story I heard yesterday . " " A story ! O what was it about , Mamma ? " said ...
... replied Freddy . His mother smiled . " Have you never heard the old saying , ' If at first you don't succeed , try , try , try again ? ' You should hear the story I heard yesterday . " " A story ! O what was it about , Mamma ? " said ...
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... replied , " O yes , I shall see him in heaven ; and you will , too , if you are good . " She was soon called to see him , for she was before long shut up in her little bedroom , never to walk out again , and her spirit went straight ...
... replied , " O yes , I shall see him in heaven ; and you will , too , if you are good . " She was soon called to see him , for she was before long shut up in her little bedroom , never to walk out again , and her spirit went straight ...
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... replied the distracted man . " Father , please do not say so . God does love you , and will do whatever is best for you . " " It does not look much like it , Milly . Here , I have been out of work these three weeks , and now , when I ...
... replied the distracted man . " Father , please do not say so . God does love you , and will do whatever is best for you . " " It does not look much like it , Milly . Here , I have been out of work these three weeks , and now , when I ...
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Page 137 - Lord, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Page 44 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 235 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 129 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Page 44 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 107 - Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Page 179 - I would not have the restless will That hurries to and fro ; Seeking for some great thing to do, Or secret thing to know : I would be treated as a child, And guided where I go.
Page 24 - The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him.
Page 177 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes...
Page 3 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them ; and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them ; Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God.