Christian Gleaner and Domestic Magazine, Volume 3B. J. Holdsworth., 1826 - Etiquette |
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... sure I have led an honest and peaceable life among my neighbours , but what have I ever done to please the God who made me ? I have been careful about this world , but what have I ever thought about another , when the time comes for me ...
... sure I have led an honest and peaceable life among my neighbours , but what have I ever done to please the God who made me ? I have been careful about this world , but what have I ever thought about another , when the time comes for me ...
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... sure that she both meant well , and managed well , he did not interfere with her . Indeed , when he saw the behaviour of a neighbouring family of children , who had a vain ungodly mother , he could not help thinking , that the only way ...
... sure that she both meant well , and managed well , he did not interfere with her . Indeed , when he saw the behaviour of a neighbouring family of children , who had a vain ungodly mother , he could not help thinking , that the only way ...
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... happiness of early piety , or of the ruin of a thought- less and vicious youth ; and if any little present had been made her , she was sure to bring it home , and share it with the rest : so every one , THE MOTHERLESS FAMILY . 19.
... happiness of early piety , or of the ruin of a thought- less and vicious youth ; and if any little present had been made her , she was sure to bring it home , and share it with the rest : so every one , THE MOTHERLESS FAMILY . 19.
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... sure if she was a little more steady , but she means no harm , she has a good heart , and in time she will grow wiser . " But Mrs. Hunt could not help feeling very anxious about her ; she had seen many girls go on from thought- lessness ...
... sure if she was a little more steady , but she means no harm , she has a good heart , and in time she will grow wiser . " But Mrs. Hunt could not help feeling very anxious about her ; she had seen many girls go on from thought- lessness ...
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... came in to their dinner , and seeing no cloth laid , and their father in tears , and Hannah in tears , they were sure something more than common was the matter ; and George asked , in a faint voice , " 38 THE MOTHERLESS FAMILY .
... came in to their dinner , and seeing no cloth laid , and their father in tears , and Hannah in tears , they were sure something more than common was the matter ; and George asked , in a faint voice , " 38 THE MOTHERLESS FAMILY .
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Page 112 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 230 - And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Page 52 - Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Page 125 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Page 264 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Page 49 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 231 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Page 2 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : 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 115 - And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.
Page 222 - If we had to walk a hundred miles, we still need set but one step at a time, and this process continued would infallibly bring us to our journey's end. Fatigue generally begins, and is always increased, by calculating in a minute the exertion of hours.