Lily Douglas: A Simple Story Humbly Intended, as a Premium and Pattern, for Sabbath Schools ...Armstrong, 1821 - 107 pages |
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... look for sloes and bramble - berries - this common , I say , was now - covered with warehouses , graneries , and rope - walks , and nearest to the sea , with dis- agreeable smoky saltpans . Between the common on the east , and the sands ...
... look for sloes and bramble - berries - this common , I say , was now - covered with warehouses , graneries , and rope - walks , and nearest to the sea , with dis- agreeable smoky saltpans . Between the common on the east , and the sands ...
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... look in her face , to burst into tears- In the midst of all this wretchedness , no- thing was more lamentable , than the total 1 absence of every -thing that could in the small- * 2 LILY DOUGLAS . 17 The poor little boy was lying on the ...
... look in her face , to burst into tears- In the midst of all this wretchedness , no- thing was more lamentable , than the total 1 absence of every -thing that could in the small- * 2 LILY DOUGLAS . 17 The poor little boy was lying on the ...
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... looks , as first one girl , and then another turns away her head , to hide her falling tears . And if the drawing forth of tears from a numerous little audience , implied any power of pathos on the part of a speaker , here would have ...
... looks , as first one girl , and then another turns away her head , to hide her falling tears . And if the drawing forth of tears from a numerous little audience , implied any power of pathos on the part of a speaker , here would have ...
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... look like a leafless forest . I would have shewn you Inchfaros , with its round tower rising from the midst of the waters . I would have bid you look to the north , to the fine bluff headland which rises like a rampart above the white ...
... look like a leafless forest . I would have shewn you Inchfaros , with its round tower rising from the midst of the waters . I would have bid you look to the north , to the fine bluff headland which rises like a rampart above the white ...
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... look for it , thus to watch for it , thus to be ready for it , every moment of our life ; for as St. Paul saith , " of the times and the seasons ye have no need that I should write unto you , for you yourselves know per- fectly , that ...
... look for it , thus to watch for it , thus to be ready for it , every moment of our life ; for as St. Paul saith , " of the times and the seasons ye have no need that I should write unto you , for you yourselves know per- fectly , that ...
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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.