My brother's keeper, by Amy Lothrop. By miss WetherellGall & Inglis, 1855 - 300 pages |
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... dear Hulda , I trust you in better bands than his . " The child smiled with a perfect understanding of her words , a look so quick and bright , that Rosalie was silent until her little charge was laid in the bed . Then Hulda spoke . 66 ...
... dear Hulda , I trust you in better bands than his . " The child smiled with a perfect understanding of her words , a look so quick and bright , that Rosalie was silent until her little charge was laid in the bed . Then Hulda spoke . 66 ...
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... dear - which are as fine as can be , no doubt - but I also must lay claim to some powers of vision . Hulda has been watching me ever since I came into the room . Now what is your pleasure ? Martha having screamed ' scarlet fever ...
... dear - which are as fine as can be , no doubt - but I also must lay claim to some powers of vision . Hulda has been watching me ever since I came into the room . Now what is your pleasure ? Martha having screamed ' scarlet fever ...
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... dear girl , " he said , " with all your preju- dices . Now don't trouble yourself about this child - I daresay she will do well enough . Would it be any comfort to you if I sat up with her to - night ? " 66 No , " said Rosalie , with a ...
... dear girl , " he said , " with all your preju- dices . Now don't trouble yourself about this child - I daresay she will do well enough . Would it be any comfort to you if I sat up with her to - night ? " 66 No , " said Rosalie , with a ...
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... his neck , Rosalie said- " If you could . But oh , my dear brother ! never forget where she is ! I would I could keep that before you every minute of your life . " If the wings of the recording angel had touched him.
... his neck , Rosalie said- " If you could . But oh , my dear brother ! never forget where she is ! I would I could keep that before you every minute of your life . " If the wings of the recording angel had touched him.
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... dear , he is quite right in endeavouring to keep up your spirits , but at the same time I must tell you that amendments are precarious things . Mrs. Forsyth lost a child with scarlet fever only last week , and she had been supposed to ...
... dear , he is quite right in endeavouring to keep up your spirits , but at the same time I must tell you that amendments are precarious things . Mrs. Forsyth lost a child with scarlet fever only last week , and she had been supposed to ...
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Page 270 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 128 - Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm...
Page 59 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 101 - The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee : the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Page 270 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Page 102 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields or waves or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee; Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Page 21 - Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.
Page 110 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 113 - For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
Page 235 - hath * no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God " doth * lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.