Magdalen Facts: No. 1, JanuaryThe Author, 1832 - 104 pages |
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... tear had impercepti- bly stolen down my cheek , and lighted on my sleeve , ere I was aware of it ; and , on reflection , I found that my mind had been musing thus : -What if this was my sister ! Shall some base villain steal her ...
... tear had impercepti- bly stolen down my cheek , and lighted on my sleeve , ere I was aware of it ; and , on reflection , I found that my mind had been musing thus : -What if this was my sister ! Shall some base villain steal her ...
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... tears flowed from her eyes , “ I am a minister's daughter . I am ruined . I have no home - no friend . " The history of this female is interesting . In her maiden days she learned the trade of an artificial flower and dress maker . A ...
... tears flowed from her eyes , “ I am a minister's daughter . I am ruined . I have no home - no friend . " The history of this female is interesting . In her maiden days she learned the trade of an artificial flower and dress maker . A ...
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... Tears started from her eyes . He saw them , and asked her why she wept . She placed the paper in his hand . He read the article , and asked her if she was afraid that that would be her lot . No , replied the afflicted lady , but I ...
... Tears started from her eyes . He saw them , and asked her why she wept . She placed the paper in his hand . He read the article , and asked her if she was afraid that that would be her lot . No , replied the afflicted lady , but I ...
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... tears . An acquaintance of his , but a stranger to her , a day or two pre- vious to her entrance into the packet , had joined their society , and was traveling in their company . Her journey was rendered some- what pleasant by the kind ...
... tears . An acquaintance of his , but a stranger to her , a day or two pre- vious to her entrance into the packet , had joined their society , and was traveling in their company . Her journey was rendered some- what pleasant by the kind ...
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... tears , and was answered by the lady in a plaintive tone , such as mental anguish gives , I am in a strange house , in a strange city , without a friend , far from home , whence I was led under the promise of marriage , and then ...
... tears , and was answered by the lady in a plaintive tone , such as mental anguish gives , I am in a strange house , in a strange city , without a friend , far from home , whence I was led under the promise of marriage , and then ...
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Page 7 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 25 - Wash you, make you clean: put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 9 - These six things doth the Lord hate: Yea, seven are an abomination unto him : A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Page 1 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 31 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it : but I found none.
Page 103 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the LORD Almighty...
Page 8 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 8 - Keep my commandments, and live ; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, "Thou art my sister;" and call understanding thy kinswoman : that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Page 30 - As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Page 103 - Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven ; for she loved much : but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.