The Veil Lifted; Or, Incidents of Private Life. A Series of Original Tales [illustrating the Evils of Intemperance].W. Brittain, 1843 - 292 pages |
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... married ! as one dared not then take a single glass with an old acquaintance . " " DARE ! my dear , " said Maria , throwing her arms round her husband's neck- " DARE indeed ! Tell them you dare to be what few of them dare . " " What is ...
... married ! as one dared not then take a single glass with an old acquaintance . " " DARE ! my dear , " said Maria , throwing her arms round her husband's neck- " DARE indeed ! Tell them you dare to be what few of them dare . " " What is ...
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... marriage , many people still considered Williams a very sober man ; and so imperceptible , at least so subtle , was the course of his moral declension , that even his most intimate friends could not say he was lower in the scale of ...
... marriage , many people still considered Williams a very sober man ; and so imperceptible , at least so subtle , was the course of his moral declension , that even his most intimate friends could not say he was lower in the scale of ...
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... marriage , in most cases , has on beauty in tears , or even on agony in a blush . Much less did she calculate , that the sacred bond would be unto her as the nether millstone laid on love's lightest dreams . This incident might not ...
... marriage , in most cases , has on beauty in tears , or even on agony in a blush . Much less did she calculate , that the sacred bond would be unto her as the nether millstone laid on love's lightest dreams . This incident might not ...
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... marriage had furrowed her brow with a double proportion of age ; and already it might be said , the youth of the young wife was gone , while as yet the days of the dew of youth were but dawning upon the companions of her childhood and ...
... marriage had furrowed her brow with a double proportion of age ; and already it might be said , the youth of the young wife was gone , while as yet the days of the dew of youth were but dawning upon the companions of her childhood and ...
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... married : and does it not remind you of the same happy days ? " " Perhaps so , " said John , as he kept reading the sporting intelligence of an old newspaper . " I hope you feel happy in the change we have made ? " continued the ...
... married : and does it not remind you of the same happy days ? " " Perhaps so , " said John , as he kept reading the sporting intelligence of an old newspaper . " I hope you feel happy in the change we have made ? " continued the ...
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Page 111 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines : the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold : and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord : I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 228 - I HEAR thee speak of the better land, Thou callest its children a happy band ; Mother ! oh, where is that radiant shore ? Shall we not seek it, and weep no more ? Is it where the flower of the orange blows, And the fire-flies glance through the myrtle boughs?" — " Not there, not there, my child...
Page 167 - And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun, And she forgot the blue above the trees, And she forgot the dells where waters run, And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze...
Page 63 - Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness : therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Page 203 - While she seems, nodding o'er her charge, to drop On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, And give us up to licence, unrecall'd, Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills.
Page 198 - Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich
Page 111 - Though famine pine in empty stalls, where herds were wont to be? 3 Yet in the Lord will I be glad, and glory in his love ; In him I'll joy, who will the God of my salvation prove. 4...
Page 231 - A chariot of fire through the dark cloud descended; Its drivers were angels on horses of whiteness, And its burning wheels turned on axles of brightness. A seraph unfolded its doors bright and shining, All dazzling like gold of the seventh refining ; And the souls that came forth out of great tribulation, Have mounted the chariot and steeds of salvation.
Page 231 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Page 95 - Behold ! I stand at the door and knock ; if any man will open the door, I will come in to him and sup with him, and he with Me (Rev.