The Guardian, Volumes 20-21H. Harbaugh, 1869 |
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... hour of a frosty November morning , they leaped to the window to see what all this meant . For a few moments , they stood and looked at myriads of " stars " darting through the air and falling earthward , like the large first flakes of ...
... hour of a frosty November morning , they leaped to the window to see what all this meant . For a few moments , they stood and looked at myriads of " stars " darting through the air and falling earthward , like the large first flakes of ...
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... hours ; to be done when the sufferer can think of nothing above his pain ; when the breast heaves with vain endeavors at life - giving breathing , and every hour seems to be the last . With the lips , such a one may possibly pray , but ...
... hours ; to be done when the sufferer can think of nothing above his pain ; when the breast heaves with vain endeavors at life - giving breathing , and every hour seems to be the last . With the lips , such a one may possibly pray , but ...
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... hours they are slaves to their employers . After business hours they have no one to take them by the hand but those whose touch is death . The bulk of these clerks are from the country . Nine - tenths of them would be the gainers , if ...
... hours they are slaves to their employers . After business hours they have no one to take them by the hand but those whose touch is death . The bulk of these clerks are from the country . Nine - tenths of them would be the gainers , if ...
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... hour which was usually devoted to her children , her ladies of honor searched the grounds of the Castle , and found her in a retired part of the orchard , attending upon a leper whose hair she had just cut off with her own hands , as no ...
... hour which was usually devoted to her children , her ladies of honor searched the grounds of the Castle , and found her in a retired part of the orchard , attending upon a leper whose hair she had just cut off with her own hands , as no ...
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... HOURS AT HOME . - The January number of this popular and valuable monthly has the following contents : Progress , by Horace Bushnell , D. D .; Bab and Babism , by Prof. E. P. Evans ; The Chaplet of Pearls . Chapters XXXVIII . - XL . By ...
... HOURS AT HOME . - The January number of this popular and valuable monthly has the following contents : Progress , by Horace Bushnell , D. D .; Bab and Babism , by Prof. E. P. Evans ; The Chaplet of Pearls . Chapters XXXVIII . - XL . By ...
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Page 121 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 283 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 283 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 283 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 3 - Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother, And in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.
Page 230 - MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi...
Page 283 - His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast. The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed ; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sate by his fire, and talked the night away ; Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won.
Page 208 - Counsel is of two sorts; the one concerning manners, the other concerning business : for the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine...
Page 27 - to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.
Page 208 - Cor ne edito (Eat not the heart). Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.