A Ray of LightRobert Carter & Brothers, 1867 - 158 pages |
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... tell me your name and where you live , and then run home and say I will come as soon as I can . " 66 away . ' Very well , " said the girl , turning slowly " But you have not told me your name nor where you live . " " Our name be Ward ...
... tell me your name and where you live , and then run home and say I will come as soon as I can . " 66 away . ' Very well , " said the girl , turning slowly " But you have not told me your name nor where you live . " " Our name be Ward ...
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... tell you that you are very wrong in letting this child have anything yet but milk and water , and even that I should scarcely think is wanted ; but if you really find that you have not enough to supply her , pray A RAY OF LIGHT . 11.
... tell you that you are very wrong in letting this child have anything yet but milk and water , and even that I should scarcely think is wanted ; but if you really find that you have not enough to supply her , pray A RAY OF LIGHT . 11.
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... tell her what to do . My doctoring is only for those who can't afford to pay a wiser person . ' 99 " What art making , lass ? " asked her father ; " finery for the fair ? " Millicent laughed heartily as she answered , hold- ing up her ...
... tell her what to do . My doctoring is only for those who can't afford to pay a wiser person . ' 99 " What art making , lass ? " asked her father ; " finery for the fair ? " Millicent laughed heartily as she answered , hold- ing up her ...
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... tell me of any room I can hire for a commencement , and any person who would be mistress ? " " With regard to the room , ma'am , I fancy there is a cottage with one large old - fashioned kitchen to it that would do , but I do not know ...
... tell me of any room I can hire for a commencement , and any person who would be mistress ? " " With regard to the room , ma'am , I fancy there is a cottage with one large old - fashioned kitchen to it that would do , but I do not know ...
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... tell her I'll undertake the school ; I feel sure I can manage it ; it's the very thing I should like ! " " Then you'd best write to - day to uncle . " " Oh ! yes , mother , I will . I really think you'll be very comfortable with Susan ...
... tell her I'll undertake the school ; I feel sure I can manage it ; it's the very thing I should like ! " " Then you'd best write to - day to uncle . " " Oh ! yes , mother , I will . I really think you'll be very comfortable with Susan ...
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Popular passages
Page 92 - When thou goest, it shall lead thee ; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee ; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light ; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Page 143 - Christ ; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers ; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Page 92 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity ; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 92 - I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting ; in like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness,) with good works.
Page 58 - BETTER trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing. Oh, in this mocking world, too fast The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth; Better be cheated to the last Than lose the blessed hope of truth.
Page 123 - Yet is it a talent of trust, a loan to be rendered back with interest ; A delight, but redolent of care ; honey -sweet, but lacking not the bitter.
Page 86 - This world is but the rugged road Which leads us to the bright abode Of peace above ; So let us choose that narrow way Which leads no traveller's foot astray From realms of love.
Page 46 - But now God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another's burdens ; for no man is without fault ; no man but hath his burden ; no man is sufficient of himself ; no man is wise enough of himself ; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help, instruct, and admonish one another.
Page 80 - God hath for a season lent Perchance to try thy spirit, and its bent, Effeminate soul and base — weakly to mourn,, There lies no desert in the land of life, For e'en that tract that barrenest doth seem, Laboured of thee in faith and hope, shall teem With heavenly harvests and rich gatherings, rife...