My brother's keeper, by Amy Lothrop. By miss WetherellGall & Inglis, 1855 - 300 pages |
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... live with them . ' I am all over sophisticated - with humours , fancies , craving hourly sympathy . I must have books , pictures , theatres , chit - chat , scandal , jokes , ambiguities , and a thousand whim - whams which their simpler ...
... live with them . ' I am all over sophisticated - with humours , fancies , craving hourly sympathy . I must have books , pictures , theatres , chit - chat , scandal , jokes , ambiguities , and a thousand whim - whams which their simpler ...
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... live and power to do could not be found , -when her mind dwelt with intense longing on the words , " I shall go to her , but she shall not return to me . " Yet even then God had not forgotten his child , and in the breaking light her ...
... live and power to do could not be found , -when her mind dwelt with intense longing on the words , " I shall go to her , but she shall not return to me . " Yet even then God had not forgotten his child , and in the breaking light her ...
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... live on nothing else . " " Thank you , Martha , " said her mistress , " but I am not ready for tea yet . Ask Mr. Thornton when you go down how soon he wishes to have it . " " I smell salt water , " said Martha Jumps as she went down to ...
... live on nothing else . " " Thank you , Martha , " said her mistress , " but I am not ready for tea yet . Ask Mr. Thornton when you go down how soon he wishes to have it . " " I smell salt water , " said Martha Jumps as she went down to ...
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... live as I am . No , my dear -no more . It's really a shame to eat two breakfasts , though to be sure something depends upon how much a person took at the first . " Oh , have another cup ! " said Thornton , " and you'll stand the ...
... live as I am . No , my dear -no more . It's really a shame to eat two breakfasts , though to be sure something depends upon how much a person took at the first . " Oh , have another cup ! " said Thornton , " and you'll stand the ...
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... live together . ' She laid her hands upon his shoulders , and looked up at him with a face so loving , so beseeching , so full of all that she could not say , that its light was half reflected . Her whole heart was in that look ; and ...
... live together . ' She laid her hands upon his shoulders , and looked up at him with a face so loving , so beseeching , so full of all that she could not say , that its light was half reflected . Her whole heart was in that look ; and ...
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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.