Improvement Era, Volume 5, Issue 1Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association., 1901 |
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... Harald , " she said . " What are you making ? It looks like a castle . Is it ? What a fine place to play in ! Help me over this ledge , won't you , Harald ? " Startled as he was , he did not at once obey . His face flushed , and he made ...
... Harald , " she said . " What are you making ? It looks like a castle . Is it ? What a fine place to play in ! Help me over this ledge , won't you , Harald ? " Startled as he was , he did not at once obey . His face flushed , and he made ...
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... Harald of necessity reached his strong arms over the ledge , and , taking her hands , nearly lifted her over to his side . " My ! how strong you are ! " she cried . " I wish I were as strong as you , then I would build houses , too . I ...
... Harald of necessity reached his strong arms over the ledge , and , taking her hands , nearly lifted her over to his side . " My ! how strong you are ! " she cried . " I wish I were as strong as you , then I would build houses , too . I ...
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... Harald , also , but said nothing to the boy and girl . “ How beautiful it is up here ! " she said . " Let's sit here a few minutes ; I'm quite tired out . Doesn't the fjord look blue , to - day , Harald ? Is it because the sky is so ...
... Harald , also , but said nothing to the boy and girl . “ How beautiful it is up here ! " she said . " Let's sit here a few minutes ; I'm quite tired out . Doesn't the fjord look blue , to - day , Harald ? Is it because the sky is so ...
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... Harald , tell me the story of the Three Trolds , will you ? I do so like to hear it . " It took some coaxing to have him talk the necessary time needed for the telling of a story , but at last he began : Once upon a time , there were ...
... Harald , tell me the story of the Three Trolds , will you ? I do so like to hear it . " It took some coaxing to have him talk the necessary time needed for the telling of a story , but at last he began : Once upon a time , there were ...
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... Harald told the legend as though he believed every word ; and , at its close , the girl drew a long breath . Then ... Harald's father , coming at a rapid pace down the hillside . " The sheep , the sheep ! " whispered the terrified boy ...
... Harald told the legend as though he believed every word ; and , at its close , the girl drew a long breath . Then ... Harald's father , coming at a rapid pace down the hillside . " The sheep , the sheep ! " whispered the terrified boy ...
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Page 41 - But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 19 - O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, — Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt!
Page 18 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, ' Sister Spirit, come away ! ' What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be Death...
Page 35 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 19 - But human creatures' lives! Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,— Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. "But why do I talk of Death? That...
Page 19 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich !She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Page 64 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 124 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 123 - Deliver the poor and needy : rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Page 19 - Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.