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... brother , what's that ? ' ' It's brandy , ' said I ; ' my digestion is so bad , I am obliged to take a little after dinner . ' How much do you take ? ' said he , let me see . ' " Only about a table - spoonful . " Truly , ' said he ...
... brother , what's that ? ' ' It's brandy , ' said I ; ' my digestion is so bad , I am obliged to take a little after dinner . ' How much do you take ? ' said he , let me see . ' " Only about a table - spoonful . " Truly , ' said he ...
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... brother has murdered my father . " The Princess , who loved her husband most tenderly , broke out into the most ... brother's and none of hers . " Take courage , my wife , " said he , “ and seek comfort in a husband that will be faithful ...
... brother has murdered my father . " The Princess , who loved her husband most tenderly , broke out into the most ... brother's and none of hers . " Take courage , my wife , " said he , “ and seek comfort in a husband that will be faithful ...
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... BROTHER . - Timoleon , the Corinthian , was a noble pattern of fraternal love . Being in battle with the Argives , and seeing his brother fall by the wounds he had received , he instantly leaped over his dead body , and with his shield ...
... BROTHER . - Timoleon , the Corinthian , was a noble pattern of fraternal love . Being in battle with the Argives , and seeing his brother fall by the wounds he had received , he instantly leaped over his dead body , and with his shield ...
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... brother's body ; and , when he dropped , was so thoroughly aroused , that he was enabled to reach his home , having escaped death by his brother's generous sacrifice of himself , and had the melancholy duty imposed upon him of attending ...
... brother's body ; and , when he dropped , was so thoroughly aroused , that he was enabled to reach his home , having escaped death by his brother's generous sacrifice of himself , and had the melancholy duty imposed upon him of attending ...
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... brother unspeakable suffer- ing , and made him a helpless cripple for life . This was a costly fight , and for a ... brothers , but school- mates and class - mates . Both of them had irritable tempers , and had been taught to think they ...
... brother unspeakable suffer- ing , and made him a helpless cripple for life . This was a costly fight , and for a ... brothers , but school- mates and class - mates . Both of them had irritable tempers , and had been taught to think they ...
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Page 611 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 384 - The wicked is driven away in his wickedness : but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Page 332 - Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: but to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the...
Page 438 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Page 134 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 50 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 468 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe.
Page 135 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Page 611 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 611 - The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance, and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it.