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... wish it to be a bad one ; but , then , it will not be a good one without proper care on our part . Perhaps you would ... wishes . Is there any- thing else to which you must listen ? Yes , you know there is conscience , that inward voice ...
... wish it to be a bad one ; but , then , it will not be a good one without proper care on our part . Perhaps you would ... wishes . Is there any- thing else to which you must listen ? Yes , you know there is conscience , that inward voice ...
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... wish that some of our brave English ragged - school teachers could go among them , with the power and the liberty to teach them the common proprieties of life , and to tell them about Jesus Christ . Onward , however , we went , and by ...
... wish that some of our brave English ragged - school teachers could go among them , with the power and the liberty to teach them the common proprieties of life , and to tell them about Jesus Christ . Onward , however , we went , and by ...
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... wish I had some , Around my hair to twine ! The ruby and the emerald , I would that they were mine . " Her darling brother listen'd , As thoughtfully he smiled ; ( Herbert , so kind and truthful , A dear and loving child ; ) And then he ...
... wish I had some , Around my hair to twine ! The ruby and the emerald , I would that they were mine . " Her darling brother listen'd , As thoughtfully he smiled ; ( Herbert , so kind and truthful , A dear and loving child ; ) And then he ...
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... wish , and fancied that we , too , should like the cold weather to remain a long time . But we did not think so many minutes . For such a vision of the sum- mer that had fled came to our memory , that it was like speak- ing unkindly of ...
... wish , and fancied that we , too , should like the cold weather to remain a long time . But we did not think so many minutes . For such a vision of the sum- mer that had fled came to our memory , that it was like speak- ing unkindly of ...
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... wish . " 66 Very good , " said the stranger , drawing from his pocket a pen , an inkhorn , and a sheet of coarse paper ; " here's a block of wood for you to write upon : go to work ! " The letter was soon done , and the stranger ...
... wish . " 66 Very good , " said the stranger , drawing from his pocket a pen , an inkhorn , and a sheet of coarse paper ; " here's a block of wood for you to write upon : go to work ! " The letter was soon done , and the stranger ...
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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.