My brother's keeper, by Amy Lothrop. By miss WetherellGall & Inglis, 1855 - 300 pages |
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... Venus would suit you well enough , or you might get a situation in Mars , you're of such a warlike disposition . You haven't got sense enough for Pallas , or you'd never be caught in the third THE DOCTOR'S VISIT. ...
... Venus would suit you well enough , or you might get a situation in Mars , you're of such a warlike disposition . You haven't got sense enough for Pallas , or you'd never be caught in the third THE DOCTOR'S VISIT. ...
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Anna Bartlett Warner. Pallas , or you'd never be caught in the third story of a house while there were two below it . " " I thought it would be quieter up here , " Rosalie said , with a face that was grave only because she had no heart ...
Anna Bartlett Warner. Pallas , or you'd never be caught in the third story of a house while there were two below it . " " I thought it would be quieter up here , " Rosalie said , with a face that was grave only because she had no heart ...
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... never entirely silent . Footsteps now had a character and meaning , coming out as they did from the deep stillness and passing into other stillness as deep ; and as an oyster - man went slowly through the street with his cart , his deep ...
... never entirely silent . Footsteps now had a character and meaning , coming out as they did from the deep stillness and passing into other stillness as deep ; and as an oyster - man went slowly through the street with his cart , his deep ...
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... never rose , and the evening never fell , that Rosalie did not kneel by her little sister , and pray with her and for her in just such words as she could understand . Martha Jumps stayed her foot if perchance she entered the room at ...
... never rose , and the evening never fell , that Rosalie did not kneel by her little sister , and pray with her and for her in just such words as she could understand . Martha Jumps stayed her foot if perchance she entered the room at ...
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... never make suggestions , " said he , throwing down the tongs . " What I've got to say comes out head first . Now here you persist in shutting yourself up , and trying to be as nun - like as possible . I wonder you submit to be called ...
... never make suggestions , " said he , throwing down the tongs . " What I've got to say comes out head first . Now here you persist in shutting yourself up , and trying to be as nun - like as possible . I wonder you submit to be called ...
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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.