The Lady of the Manor: Being a Series of Conversations on the Subject of Confirmation. Intended for the Use of the Middle and Higher Ranks of Young Females, Volume 2Harper & Bros., 1835 |
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Page 43
... tears were flowing fast at the recollection of pleasures which I thought might never recur , when my mother en- tered my room in evident agitation , holding an open letter in her hand . I was alarmed ; and on entreating to be told the ...
... tears were flowing fast at the recollection of pleasures which I thought might never recur , when my mother en- tered my room in evident agitation , holding an open letter in her hand . I was alarmed ; and on entreating to be told the ...
Page 47
... tears , without which it was thought that I might have relapsed into my former confusion of intellect . " My child ! my Ellen ! " repeated this tender father ; " then I am not at once to be bereaved of both my daugh- ters ; our Ellen is ...
... tears , without which it was thought that I might have relapsed into my former confusion of intellect . " My child ! my Ellen ! " repeated this tender father ; " then I am not at once to be bereaved of both my daugh- ters ; our Ellen is ...
Page 49
... tears sometimes starting in his dark blue eyes . Still , though he was thus disconcerted , and though he verified not a single idea which I had formed of him , nor any de- scription I had ever heard of him , yet there was a certain VOL ...
... tears sometimes starting in his dark blue eyes . Still , though he was thus disconcerted , and though he verified not a single idea which I had formed of him , nor any de- scription I had ever heard of him , yet there was a certain VOL ...
Page 51
... tears tremble in his eyes , notwithstanding his efforts to suppress them . But , as the sorrows of childhood speedily pass away , so when the little boy became more accustomed to those about him , the pensiveness of his manner gradually ...
... tears tremble in his eyes , notwithstanding his efforts to suppress them . But , as the sorrows of childhood speedily pass away , so when the little boy became more accustomed to those about him , the pensiveness of his manner gradually ...
Page 84
... tears ; but they have been taught at least to ac- knowledge that they are guilty of impiety and ingratitude , if they do not bear the common lot of their sinful race with a decent resignation . Very little however of this submis- sive ...
... tears ; but they have been taught at least to ac- knowledge that they are guilty of impiety and ingratitude , if they do not bear the common lot of their sinful race with a decent resignation . Very little however of this submis- sive ...
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Page 460 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working with our own hands : being reviled, we bless : being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Page 168 - Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Page 151 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and His word ? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Page 66 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Page 53 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 359 - For thy Maker is thine husband, the LORD of hosts is his name : and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Page 295 - Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine ? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Page 72 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Page 225 - If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Page 190 - Women received their dead raised to life again : and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance ; that they might obtain a better resurrection...