Jessy Allan, the Lame Girl: A Story Founded on FactsWilliam Oliphant and Company, 1850 - 72 pages |
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... heard repeated a hundred times before ? They get nothing by coming but trouble . We are instructed , but what is their reward ? And those ladies who visit our schools , and sit down amongst us , and seem so pleased when we do well , and ...
... heard repeated a hundred times before ? They get nothing by coming but trouble . We are instructed , but what is their reward ? And those ladies who visit our schools , and sit down amongst us , and seem so pleased when we do well , and ...
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... heard of the unexpected death of some person near her own age , -or of some event which awakened her conscience , and made her feel in her soul what an aw- ful thing it would be , all sinful as she was , to fall into the hands of her ...
... heard of the unexpected death of some person near her own age , -or of some event which awakened her conscience , and made her feel in her soul what an aw- ful thing it would be , all sinful as she was , to fall into the hands of her ...
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... heard the Sabbath - School master say , that those were only hypo- crites who came to Christ , and prayed to be delivered from their sins , while all the time they really did not hate them , or try in every way they could to resist them ...
... heard the Sabbath - School master say , that those were only hypo- crites who came to Christ , and prayed to be delivered from their sins , while all the time they really did not hate them , or try in every way they could to resist them ...
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... heard them not . She could not bear to think of what her mother had said , yet she could think of nothing else . She had heard frightful stories of operations at the Infirmary , and now they all re- turned to her mind . She breathed ...
... heard them not . She could not bear to think of what her mother had said , yet she could think of nothing else . She had heard frightful stories of operations at the Infirmary , and now they all re- turned to her mind . She breathed ...
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... heard it was come . Her mother went to the door , and came back with her hands clasped together . 6 ' Oh ! Jessy , ' exclaimed she , what for would you be so keen to go away from your own mother ? I am sure , when you see that awful ...
... heard it was come . Her mother went to the door , and came back with her hands clasped together . 6 ' Oh ! Jessy , ' exclaimed she , what for would you be so keen to go away from your own mother ? I am sure , when you see that awful ...
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