Early days; or, The Wesleyan scholar's guide1870 |
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... side to side , counting the hours , and longing for the daylight ; to hear the wind moan among the trees , and the rain beat heavily against the window- panes ; this is hard , even when you lie on a bed of down , and when all that love ...
... side to side , counting the hours , and longing for the daylight ; to hear the wind moan among the trees , and the rain beat heavily against the window- panes ; this is hard , even when you lie on a bed of down , and when all that love ...
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... side . Minnie , his little sister , came too . 66 " How long have you been working at your boat , Freddy ? " ' Half an hour , Mamma , " replied Freddy . His mother smiled . " Have you never heard the old saying , ' If at first you don't ...
... side . Minnie , his little sister , came too . 66 " How long have you been working at your boat , Freddy ? " ' Half an hour , Mamma , " replied Freddy . His mother smiled . " Have you never heard the old saying , ' If at first you don't ...
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... sides of the beautiful and grand ravine . Here the valley is but two hundred yards wide , while rising one thousand ... side of the gorge , far above us , were a few birds , appearing large even at the distance we were from them . We ...
... sides of the beautiful and grand ravine . Here the valley is but two hundred yards wide , while rising one thousand ... side of the gorge , far above us , were a few birds , appearing large even at the distance we were from them . We ...
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... Vatican , where the Pope lives , is so near to it , and is such an ugly building , as you will see by looking at the right hand side of the picture , passed into the church , through the great door , 386 EARLY DAYS .
... Vatican , where the Pope lives , is so near to it , and is such an ugly building , as you will see by looking at the right hand side of the picture , passed into the church , through the great door , 386 EARLY DAYS .
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... side of the great sea used their skill and bodies to make ships and to print Bibles . They came in ships , and brought iron hoops , knives , nails , hatchets , cloth , and needles , which are very good . They also brought rum and whisky ...
... side of the great sea used their skill and bodies to make ships and to print Bibles . They came in ships , and brought iron hoops , knives , nails , hatchets , cloth , and needles , which are very good . They also brought rum and whisky ...
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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.