May You Like itT. Boys, 1822 - 272 pages |
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... turning her face meekly towards heaven , she prayed earnestly for strength ; at first a few tears dimmed her eyes , but she rose , composed and prepared . Whenever she , afterwards , felt in- clined to give way , she immediately prayed ...
... turning her face meekly towards heaven , she prayed earnestly for strength ; at first a few tears dimmed her eyes , but she rose , composed and prepared . Whenever she , afterwards , felt in- clined to give way , she immediately prayed ...
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... turned at last , to answer the soft voice that spoke to me . I was not the least angry , for my heart was softened ; and I beheld the only countenance , which I should not have refused to look upon , just as I had been gazing on ...
... turned at last , to answer the soft voice that spoke to me . I was not the least angry , for my heart was softened ; and I beheld the only countenance , which I should not have refused to look upon , just as I had been gazing on ...
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... turned his face to wipe away the tears ; and throwing back the heavy hair from his forehead , he looked up full into his father's face , and said : " You did quite right to speak , ' dear sir , I would rather you should speak , for I am ...
... turned his face to wipe away the tears ; and throwing back the heavy hair from his forehead , he looked up full into his father's face , and said : " You did quite right to speak , ' dear sir , I would rather you should speak , for I am ...
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... no opposition to going ; his father's affairs were gradually turning out well , and he saw that a willingness to follow the advice of his physician F had determined to accompany her children : during her absence A MERCHANT'S SON . 49.
... no opposition to going ; his father's affairs were gradually turning out well , and he saw that a willingness to follow the advice of his physician F had determined to accompany her children : during her absence A MERCHANT'S SON . 49.
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... Look at the generality of mankind ; are they , like a chariot - wheel , ad- vancing , or , like a mill - wheel , for ever turning round in one place ? Meet them again at an Christ is the medium through which we look ...
... Look at the generality of mankind ; are they , like a chariot - wheel , ad- vancing , or , like a mill - wheel , for ever turning round in one place ? Meet them again at an Christ is the medium through which we look ...
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Page 52 - Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Page 115 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 197 - Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Page 103 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Page 155 - Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both.
Page viii - Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched : yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast.
Page 59 - 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 219 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the hill of heavenly truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast...
Page xiv - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ersluide The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 128 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.