Best Things from Best Authors, Volume 4Jacob W. Shoemaker Penn Publishing Company, 1908 |
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Page 68
... means of annoyance to you , but your country's own means of distinction and defense . All is peace ; and God has granted you this sight of your country's happiness ere you slumber in the grave forever . He has allowed you to behold and ...
... means of annoyance to you , but your country's own means of distinction and defense . All is peace ; and God has granted you this sight of your country's happiness ere you slumber in the grave forever . He has allowed you to behold and ...
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... means to them That Christ is born in Bethlehem ! But Rocket ? On this Christmas eve You might have seen him standing where The city's streets so interweave They form that somewhat famous square Called Printing House . His face was ...
... means to them That Christ is born in Bethlehem ! But Rocket ? On this Christmas eve You might have seen him standing where The city's streets so interweave They form that somewhat famous square Called Printing House . His face was ...
Page 91
... mean ? Where have you hid him ? ” " I have seen nothing of him since last night . " " Come , you won't save him this way . Where is he ? " " At the bottom of the nearest pond for anything I know . " 66 ' What do you mean by that ? " In ...
... mean ? Where have you hid him ? ” " I have seen nothing of him since last night . " " Come , you won't save him this way . Where is he ? " " At the bottom of the nearest pond for anything I know . " 66 ' What do you mean by that ? " In ...
Page 97
... means be prevailed upon to bor- row more than a sovereign , with which loan Mr. Browdie was fain to content himself , after many entreaties that he would accept of more . " Tak ' that bit o ' timber to help thee on wi ' , mun ; keep a ...
... means be prevailed upon to bor- row more than a sovereign , with which loan Mr. Browdie was fain to content himself , after many entreaties that he would accept of more . " Tak ' that bit o ' timber to help thee on wi ' , mun ; keep a ...
Page 119
... means , and I'm all a woman , you know . I'm not very good at dates , and it was - let me see , let me see- It was - let me think how long ! Ah , well , ' twas years ago , When I was only forty and John was forty - three , And the ...
... means , and I'm all a woman , you know . I'm not very good at dates , and it was - let me see , let me see- It was - let me think how long ! Ah , well , ' twas years ago , When I was only forty and John was forty - three , And the ...
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Page 110 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 110 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder ; Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 100 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 99 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 99 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father ; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Page 124 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 80 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 87 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while...
Page 87 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Page 55 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.