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... thee be careful - do not make a blunder ; If you do ! - by the Powers that are Holy I'll pound thee , And fervently pray , may the devil confound thee ! No month - and no day- -no Domini Anno , And only half signed , ROBERTUS Nota ...
... thee be careful - do not make a blunder ; If you do ! - by the Powers that are Holy I'll pound thee , And fervently pray , may the devil confound thee ! No month - and no day- -no Domini Anno , And only half signed , ROBERTUS Nota ...
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... thee , Like the fond dove the distant ark regaining , When its lone wings had swept the shoreless sea ; For still I love ! though life's brief dream is o'er . The dark sea rolls between ; we meet no more ! Unloved ! unhappy ! joyless ...
... thee , Like the fond dove the distant ark regaining , When its lone wings had swept the shoreless sea ; For still I love ! though life's brief dream is o'er . The dark sea rolls between ; we meet no more ! Unloved ! unhappy ! joyless ...
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... thee and from a followin ' arter thee ; whar you go I'll go , and whar you do n't go I won't go , and I'll stick tew you till death do us part , and what's the rest , Bates ? ' ' Can't say . ' - ' Never mind , that ere's the sent'ment ...
... thee and from a followin ' arter thee ; whar you go I'll go , and whar you do n't go I won't go , and I'll stick tew you till death do us part , and what's the rest , Bates ? ' ' Can't say . ' - ' Never mind , that ere's the sent'ment ...
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... thee now ? Wilt thou tell young hearts then beating , quick as hers once beat ' neath thee , How she came and sought thy shelter , how she loved her old Oak tree ? Wilt thou say her look was gentle , wilt thou say her heart was kind ...
... thee now ? Wilt thou tell young hearts then beating , quick as hers once beat ' neath thee , How she came and sought thy shelter , how she loved her old Oak tree ? Wilt thou say her look was gentle , wilt thou say her heart was kind ...
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... thee to me , And from me to thee returning ! Each to each , all each would see ! Each to each the sole sweet vision On the broad earth's mighty ball ! Fortune's gifts may seek or shun us , Love regards them not at all . Love , while yet ...
... thee to me , And from me to thee returning ! Each to each , all each would see ! Each to each the sole sweet vision On the broad earth's mighty ball ! Fortune's gifts may seek or shun us , Love regards them not at all . Love , while yet ...
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Page 190 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell; or whether out of the body I cannot tell: God knoweth); such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth); How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 345 - Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Page 249 - It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Page 173 - I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, or fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty...
Page 91 - I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind, and that is, by securing to myself the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events, and governs futurity.
Page 268 - That the remaining hundred thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Page 362 - As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God : God will establish it for ever.
Page 263 - ... and increase confidence in the Power, and Wisdom, and Providence of Almighty God, I will walk the Meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the Lilies that take no care, and those very many other various little living creatures, that are not only created but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore trust in him.
Page 274 - But I know not how it comes to pass that professors in most arts and sciences are generally the worst qualified to explain their meanings to those who are not of their tribe : a common farmer shall make you understand in three words that his foot is out of joint, or his collar-bone broken, wherein a surgeon, after a hundred terms of art, if you are not a scholar, shall leave you to seek.
Page 258 - ... the weeping. For the feelings of men had been wound up to such a point that at length the stern English nature, so little used to outward signs of emotion, gave way, and thousands sobbed aloud for very joy. Meanwhile, from the outskirts of the multitude, horsemen were spurring off to bear along all the great roads intelligence of the victory of our Church and nation.