Lily Douglas: A Simple Story Humbly Intended, as a Premium and Pattern, for Sabbath Schools ...Armstrong, 1821 - 107 pages |
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... persons travelling to the North ; and brought back again corn , and fruit , and poultry , and game , and such sort of things for the markets in the neighboring city . In the course , however , of many years , per- haps a hundred , or a ...
... persons travelling to the North ; and brought back again corn , and fruit , and poultry , and game , and such sort of things for the markets in the neighboring city . In the course , however , of many years , per- haps a hundred , or a ...
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... person of something more than suspicious honesty ; a person , in short , lost to the common feelings of our com- mon nature - poor and depraved as it is . All this I might have thought aloud , in the hearing of the Widow , and thereby ...
... person of something more than suspicious honesty ; a person , in short , lost to the common feelings of our com- mon nature - poor and depraved as it is . All this I might have thought aloud , in the hearing of the Widow , and thereby ...
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... person , a virtuè , for I must call it a virtue , possessed by too few in this school . She was regular and steady in her attendance , a quality of far higher merit than many of you seem to be aware of . — I thank God , she was ...
... person , a virtuè , for I must call it a virtue , possessed by too few in this school . She was regular and steady in her attendance , a quality of far higher merit than many of you seem to be aware of . — I thank God , she was ...
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... person , whether young or old ; but it is not only on great occasions , or in great things , that this change is perceptible . It is in the little , ever - occurring circumstances of every day's existence that we take knowledge of a be ...
... person , whether young or old ; but it is not only on great occasions , or in great things , that this change is perceptible . It is in the little , ever - occurring circumstances of every day's existence that we take knowledge of a be ...
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... performs , and which like a halo , or imaged glory , cast as it were , a moral radiance on his path , and round his person others , I say , seeing these good works , are thereby led to glorify their Father in 70 LILY DOUGLAS .
... performs , and which like a halo , or imaged glory , cast as it were , a moral radiance on his path , and round his person others , I say , seeing these good works , are thereby led to glorify their Father in 70 LILY DOUGLAS .
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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.