Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American WomanG.M. Smith & Company, 1889 - 704 pages |
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... question . " The reason is that we have discovered that her planks always turn out to be bridges across to delectable islands which she has discerned while yet they were invisible to us . How such a woman came to be , is told us in this ...
... question . " The reason is that we have discovered that her planks always turn out to be bridges across to delectable islands which she has discerned while yet they were invisible to us . How such a woman came to be , is told us in this ...
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... questions always , Mamma , what does gran'sir say to the chair when he gets down on his legs ? " The simple fact was he proposed to investigate a phenomenon with which he was not familiar , and this he had a most undoubted right to do ...
... questions always , Mamma , what does gran'sir say to the chair when he gets down on his legs ? " The simple fact was he proposed to investigate a phenomenon with which he was not familiar , and this he had a most undoubted right to do ...
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... question of money having been at last decided in favor of specie payments in little round bits of tin , representing silver ; while some handsome yellow leather , that father brought us , was cut into circles representing gold , and ...
... question of money having been at last decided in favor of specie payments in little round bits of tin , representing silver ; while some handsome yellow leather , that father brought us , was cut into circles representing gold , and ...
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... question , for father and mother had the old Puritan training . It was in their birth and bones that the Sabbath was a day holy unto the Lord . This feeling was even stronger in my father , per- haps , because his father was the son of ...
... question , for father and mother had the old Puritan training . It was in their birth and bones that the Sabbath was a day holy unto the Lord . This feeling was even stronger in my father , per- haps , because his father was the son of ...
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... question revealing itself even then ; when , at a very early age , the Testament was specially read to me on Sunday , I had asked , " How do you know God sent it ? " And if the family Bible was sometimes open before me , I would say ...
... question revealing itself even then ; when , at a very early age , the Testament was specially read to me on Sunday , I had asked , " How do you know God sent it ? " And if the family Bible was sometimes open before me , I would say ...
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Page 398 - ... fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Page 15 - THE spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, — a shining frame, — Their great Original proclaim. The...
Page 631 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 405 - He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.
Page 357 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Page 687 - And an immortal crown. 2 A cloud of witnesses around Hold thee in full survey : Forget the steps already trod, And onward urge thy way. 3...
Page 449 - tis weary; Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary; Furl it, fold it, it is best; For there's not a man to wave it, And there's not a sword to save it, And there's not one left to lave it In the blood which heroes gave it; And its foes now scorn and brave it; Furl it, hide it— let it rest!
Page 394 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 296 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Page 449 - twill live in song and story, Though its folds are in the dust : For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must. Furl that Banner, softly, slowly ! Treat it gently — it is holy — For it droops above the dead. Touch it not — unfold it never, Let it droop there, furled forever, For its people's hopes are dead...