| George Eliot - Adopted children - 1903 - 348 pages
...hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took 15 men by the hand and led them away from the city of...towards a calm and bright land, so that they look noap more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. CHAPTER XV THERE was one person, as you... | |
| Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...money. In old days there were angels who came and tool men by the hand and led them away from the cit; of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now But yet men are led away from threatening destruc tion: a hand is put into theirs, which leads then forth gently towards a calm and bright land,... | |
| Evelyn May Albright - Short stories - 1907 - 276 pages
...child on the lonely and embittered nature of a hermit. It is fully written out within the story : — "In old days there were angels who came and took men...is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's."... | |
| Stanton Coit - Christian sociology - 1908 - 506 pages
...societies is opened with these words by the officiating representative of the religious community : — In old days there were angels who came and took men...Destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men* arc led away from threatening destruction : a hand is put into theirs which leads them forth gently... | |
| Education - 1909 - 720 pages
...influence of a child is almost beyond belief. We all remember little goldenhaired Erne and Silas Marner. "In old days there were angels who came and took men...them away from the city of destruction. We see no whiterobed angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction ; a hand is put into theirs,... | |
| Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 586 pages
...where—and this is come from I don't know where. I know nothing—I'm partly mazed." • •••*• In old days there were angels who came and took men...is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.... | |
| George Eliot - Adopted children - 1911 - 298 pages
...gave a growing purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of 20 destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction:... | |
| George Eliot - Adopted children - 1911 - 220 pages
...gave a growing purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the 15 hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white- winged angels now; but yet... | |
| Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - Readers - 1912 - 296 pages
...gave a growing impulse to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men...hand is put into theirs which leads them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's.... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - Literature - 1913 - 248 pages
...daily and unheeded before us, but less unheeded now that Silas and Eppie have become a part of them: "In old days there were angels who came and took men...is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's."... | |
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