Lily Douglas: A Simple Story Humbly Intended, as a Premium and Pattern, for Sabbath Schools ...Armstrong, 1821 - 107 pages |
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... deep , boldly adventured their own lives to succour their fellow - creatures , and happily suc- ceeded in the attempt . But though Jeanie's husband escaped a watery grave , he had lost all his little prop- erty , and all his clothes ...
... deep , boldly adventured their own lives to succour their fellow - creatures , and happily suc- ceeded in the attempt . But though Jeanie's husband escaped a watery grave , he had lost all his little prop- erty , and all his clothes ...
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... deep silence in the school . The following psalm was immediately given out . The Teacher read it with considerable agitation , there was a tremulousness in the voice that was infectious ; and , I think , * 4 LILY DOUGLAS . 41 While I ...
... deep silence in the school . The following psalm was immediately given out . The Teacher read it with considerable agitation , there was a tremulousness in the voice that was infectious ; and , I think , * 4 LILY DOUGLAS . 41 While I ...
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... deep , and so still , that we tremble even to draw our breath , lest its whisper should take the air of some unhallowed sound ! -If , in addition to all these , which are the accompaniments of death , we think of the darkness , the ...
... deep , and so still , that we tremble even to draw our breath , lest its whisper should take the air of some unhallowed sound ! -If , in addition to all these , which are the accompaniments of death , we think of the darkness , the ...
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... deep solitude , the thick darkness , the gloomy si- lence of this valley ? -Who can carry you swift , as on cherub's wings , to Abraham's bo- som ? Who can make this darkness light , brighter than the noon - day , yea , above the ...
... deep solitude , the thick darkness , the gloomy si- lence of this valley ? -Who can carry you swift , as on cherub's wings , to Abraham's bo- som ? Who can make this darkness light , brighter than the noon - day , yea , above the ...
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... deep purple- her chin was bound up in a napkin - there was written , in every lineament of her once love- ly face , in all the fulness of their melancholy meaning - Dust thou art , and unto dust thou shalt return ! ' - As I turned away ...
... deep purple- her chin was bound up in a napkin - there was written , in every lineament of her once love- ly face , in all the fulness of their melancholy meaning - Dust thou art , and unto dust thou shalt return ! ' - As I turned away ...
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Page 49 - But man dieth, and wasteth away : Yea, man giveth up the -ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, And the flood decayeth and drieth up : So man lieth down, and riseth not : Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 24 - Every one of them is gone back : they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 51 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 49 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 52 - All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 53 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 53 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 65 - hath * no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God " doth * lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 24 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.