Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church (earlier "for Younger Members of the English Church")J. and C. Mozley, 1890 |
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... sent you off to seek for husbands here , did he ? Couldna ye put up with a leal Scot like Glenuskie there . ' ' There were too many of them , ' said Jean . ' And not ower leal either , ' said Eleanor . 6 Lealty is a rare plant ony gate ...
... sent you off to seek for husbands here , did he ? Couldna ye put up with a leal Scot like Glenuskie there . ' ' There were too many of them , ' said Jean . ' And not ower leal either , ' said Eleanor . 6 Lealty is a rare plant ony gate ...
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... sent . History is the parent of romance , and romance now and then becomes history . It is an absolute and undoubted fact that Count Frederic or Ferry de Vaudémont , the male representative of the line of Charles the Great , did win his ...
... sent . History is the parent of romance , and romance now and then becomes history . It is an absolute and undoubted fact that Count Frederic or Ferry de Vaudémont , the male representative of the line of Charles the Great , did win his ...
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... sent their cattle and horses to graze upon them in the summer . Peter Adamson was considered a very disagreeable old man by most people who knew him ; he was very gruff and cross in his manner , and very suspicious , as if he thought ...
... sent their cattle and horses to graze upon them in the summer . Peter Adamson was considered a very disagreeable old man by most people who knew him ; he was very gruff and cross in his manner , and very suspicious , as if he thought ...
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... sent her home . ' You'll ' I hear the horn , ' he called after her as she left him . maybe get a sight of the hounds , Chris — that'll keep you frae wearyin ' . ' Chris did not go straight into the house ; she stood looking after her ...
... sent her home . ' You'll ' I hear the horn , ' he called after her as she left him . maybe get a sight of the hounds , Chris — that'll keep you frae wearyin ' . ' Chris did not go straight into the house ; she stood looking after her ...
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... sent out from England to study the American Railway system . I had been several times by daylight over the great railway that first connected the East with the West , first subjugated the Alleghanies , first joined the Chesapeake with ...
... sent out from England to study the American Railway system . I had been several times by daylight over the great railway that first connected the East with the West , first subjugated the Alleghanies , first joined the Chesapeake with ...
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Page 494 - Aussitôt que le char chemine Et qu'elle voit les gens marcher, Elle s'en attribue uniquement la gloire. Va, vient, fait l'empressée : il semble que ce soit Un sergent de bataille allant en chaque endroit Faire avancer ses gens et hâter la victoire.
Page 254 - By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : that in blessing I will bless thee...
Page 254 - For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Page 258 - Having then gifts, differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith...
Page 442 - York ! the harmless tool of others' hate ; He sues for pardon,! and repents too late. Now angry Somerset her vengeance vows On Swift's reproaches for her ******* spouse :§ From her red locks her mouth with venom fills, And thence into the royal ear instils.
Page 142 - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasted by; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves; or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found...
Page 581 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
Page 1 - With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom all commend.
Page 80 - Venice gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.
Page 494 - Dame mouche s'en va chanter à leurs oreilles, Et fait cent sottises pareilles. Après bien du travail, le coche arrive au haut. « Respirons maintenant! dit la mouche aussitôt : J'ai tant fait que nos gens sont enfin dans la plaine Ça! messieurs les chevaux, payez-moi de ma peine.