The Torchlight: Or, Through the WoodDerby & Jackson, 1856 - 446 pages |
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... tion of debts , large and small - the tyranny and exactions of landlords , butchers , and bakers - her outgoings and shortcomings her poverty in purse , and her wealth in great ancestry ? and how few would so generously , delicately ...
... tion of debts , large and small - the tyranny and exactions of landlords , butchers , and bakers - her outgoings and shortcomings her poverty in purse , and her wealth in great ancestry ? and how few would so generously , delicately ...
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... tion . " " And I nursed him through all his malignant cases ! " " Thank God , I never spoiled my eyes or complexion for him , that is one satisfaction ; but I forget , the poor widowed sister has been remembered . " " Thank the Father ...
... tion . " " And I nursed him through all his malignant cases ! " " Thank God , I never spoiled my eyes or complexion for him , that is one satisfaction ; but I forget , the poor widowed sister has been remembered . " " Thank the Father ...
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... tion , that here , on the door - steps of his country home , he had played with his infant , motherless child , watching his gambols -pitying him for his bereavement - mourning for his own . Dove - cotes he had placed in convenient ...
... tion , that here , on the door - steps of his country home , he had played with his infant , motherless child , watching his gambols -pitying him for his bereavement - mourning for his own . Dove - cotes he had placed in convenient ...
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... tion received , and sat a long time on the other stone dog , before he followed into the house . With indifference , the lady ascended the steps , but started back as she observed the interior of the premises . Com- manding herself ...
... tion received , and sat a long time on the other stone dog , before he followed into the house . With indifference , the lady ascended the steps , but started back as she observed the interior of the premises . Com- manding herself ...
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... tion ? Mrs. Miller had a way of perfecting her aims quietly . But there was one thing she might have overlooked in her shrewdness - that Mr. Archibald Miller cajoled , might be a different man from Mr. Miller no longer duped . It hardly ...
... tion ? Mrs. Miller had a way of perfecting her aims quietly . But there was one thing she might have overlooked in her shrewdness - that Mr. Archibald Miller cajoled , might be a different man from Mr. Miller no longer duped . It hardly ...
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Page 297 - As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come 'into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Page 233 - Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Page 355 - Tis midnight with my soul till He, Bright morning star, bids darkness flee. 3 Ashamed of Jesus! sooner far Let evening blush to own a star: He sheds the beams of light divine O'er this benighted soul of mine.
Page 355 - Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for ! Even that it would please God to destroy me ; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Page 211 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
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Page 395 - When first an infant draws the vital air, Officious grief should welcome him to care : But joy should life's concluding scene attend. And mirth be kept to grace a dying friend. As the Spectator is, in a kind, a paper of news from the natural world, as others are from the busy and politic part of mankind, I shall translate the following letter, written to an eminent French gentleman in this town from Paris, which gives us the exit of...