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... poor district roast beef is seldom seen on the family table , except sent at Christmas and purchased by public subscriptions from the friends of the honest and industrious poor at this festive season of the year . But if you will ...
... poor district roast beef is seldom seen on the family table , except sent at Christmas and purchased by public subscriptions from the friends of the honest and industrious poor at this festive season of the year . But if you will ...
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... poor boy , like all the rest of us , " the lady softly replied ; but she spoke this last in English ; so the boy only raised his head with a vacant look . " You cannot see Jesus Christ now , " she added , and was answered by a sharp ...
... poor boy , like all the rest of us , " the lady softly replied ; but she spoke this last in English ; so the boy only raised his head with a vacant look . " You cannot see Jesus Christ now , " she added , and was answered by a sharp ...
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... poor boy went to bed in a very unhappy state of mind . The pernicious custom of owing money after the holidays then existed , and he was seven shillings and a sixpence in debt ; and not to pay it when promised was deemed a most ...
... poor boy went to bed in a very unhappy state of mind . The pernicious custom of owing money after the holidays then existed , and he was seven shillings and a sixpence in debt ; and not to pay it when promised was deemed a most ...
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... poor opinion of the skylark's tastes , and their power of appreciating glorious and right scenery . You should see it , as I have , touched into liquid gold , shimmering and glittering like unto a sea of glass , with its prismatic ...
... poor opinion of the skylark's tastes , and their power of appreciating glorious and right scenery . You should see it , as I have , touched into liquid gold , shimmering and glittering like unto a sea of glass , with its prismatic ...
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... poor old souls ; their hearts got ossificated , then because they cease to care for it themselves , they took up the position of the dog in the manger , and cried down the thing for which they no longer had a use . " " 6 " You think so ...
... poor old souls ; their hearts got ossificated , then because they cease to care for it themselves , they took up the position of the dog in the manger , and cried down the thing for which they no longer had a use . " " 6 " You think so ...
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Page 76 - And, beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 10 - Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 54 - Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth : saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
Page 124 - O Lord, I will praise Thee : though Thou wast angry with me, Thine anger is turned away, and Thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid : for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He also is become my salvation.
Page 99 - O Saviour, Christ, our woes dispel ; For some are sick, and some are sad, And some have never loved thee well, And some have lost the love they had...
Page 54 - And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked : and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Page 62 - Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 1 St.
Page 99 - Nor voice can sing, nor heart can frame, Nor can the memory find A sweeter sound than thy blest name, O Saviour of mankind ! 3 O Hope of every contrite heart, O Joy of all the meek ! To those who fall, how kind thou art...
Page 25 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 99 - O Saviour Christ, Thou too art Man ; Thou hast been troubled, tempted, tried ; Thy kind but searching glance can scan The very wounds that shame would hide ; Thy touch has still its ancient power ; No word from Thee can fruitless fall ; Hear in this solemn evening hour, And in Thy mercy heal us all.