The way home [by M.F. Barbour].John Grieg & Son, 1856 - 301 pages |
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... lesson , saying to him , " Mama must not have to teach anything twice ; she teaches me , I must teach you , and you must learn fast to teach little sister : if you say your lesson well , I'll read you a chapter of Line upon Line ...
... lesson , saying to him , " Mama must not have to teach anything twice ; she teaches me , I must teach you , and you must learn fast to teach little sister : if you say your lesson well , I'll read you a chapter of Line upon Line ...
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... lessons that day would bring to him -lessons of immortality . Had we The evening before our intended departure , Georgy was lying on the floor with a map spread out before him , shewing the route to his former nurse Jessie who had been ...
... lessons that day would bring to him -lessons of immortality . Had we The evening before our intended departure , Georgy was lying on the floor with a map spread out before him , shewing the route to his former nurse Jessie who had been ...
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... lessons . The books had been all put up the day before , covered afresh with white paper , to be ready to shew to their aunts . For the first time since his illness of three months , Freddy went away to town with his brother and nurse ...
... lessons . The books had been all put up the day before , covered afresh with white paper , to be ready to shew to their aunts . For the first time since his illness of three months , Freddy went away to town with his brother and nurse ...
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... lesson in travelling ; he read to his papa about Solomon and the two babies from ' Line upon Line . ' Thus we passed a long track of snowy ground , the air being exceedingly cold . At Carlisle they were sent to dine , but Freddy was too ...
... lesson in travelling ; he read to his papa about Solomon and the two babies from ' Line upon Line . ' Thus we passed a long track of snowy ground , the air being exceedingly cold . At Carlisle they were sent to dine , but Freddy was too ...
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... lessons are before them . And when we return again to daily work and trial , surely we shall not dare to wish that we might carry them back with us . Our precious ones are too well kept where they are ; and as far as they themselves are ...
... lessons are before them . And when we return again to daily work and trial , surely we shall not dare to wish that we might carry them back with us . Our precious ones are too well kept where they are ; and as far as they themselves are ...
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Popular passages
Page 212 - Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Page 151 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 48 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 236 - He lives! — In all the past He lives ; nor, to the last, Of seeing him again will I despair; In dreams I see him now ; And, on his angel brow, I see it written, "Thou shalt see me there!
Page 49 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Page 119 - I think, when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How He called little children as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with them then.
Page 70 - Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Page 70 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead...
Page 161 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 19 - I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid, My safety cometh from the Lord, who Heaven and Earth hath made.