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... look at the picture of my dear Clary , as it hangs there over the mantle - piece , and tell me if she has not the same white hair and rosy color , and the same smiling eyes as this little girl : then looking kindly at me , she asked me ...
... look at the picture of my dear Clary , as it hangs there over the mantle - piece , and tell me if she has not the same white hair and rosy color , and the same smiling eyes as this little girl : then looking kindly at me , she asked me ...
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... look at , I wish , Sarah , we could as soon put her soul in order as we have her body . Ah ! madam , answered Mrs. Sarah , that is not so easy a matter ; there is no great difficulty in washing the outside of the cup , but it is an hard ...
... look at , I wish , Sarah , we could as soon put her soul in order as we have her body . Ah ! madam , answered Mrs. Sarah , that is not so easy a matter ; there is no great difficulty in washing the outside of the cup , but it is an hard ...
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... look . It was a fine summer's evening , and Mrs. Ben- net was sitting before the house - door drinking tea . My old companion Charlotte Owen , of whom I had seen but little since I had lived with Mrs Neale , was with her , having taken ...
... look . It was a fine summer's evening , and Mrs. Ben- net was sitting before the house - door drinking tea . My old companion Charlotte Owen , of whom I had seen but little since I had lived with Mrs Neale , was with her , having taken ...
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... look a little more bright , you need not be ashamed to shew your face with any one . I dare say , before you have served half your time with me , I shall have some smart young fellow from Ludlow coming after you , with his fine speeches ...
... look a little more bright , you need not be ashamed to shew your face with any one . I dare say , before you have served half your time with me , I shall have some smart young fellow from Ludlow coming after you , with his fine speeches ...
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... looks ! why , we have affronted her I suppose , by telling her that she will spoil her beauty by crying . No indeed , I answered , I am not affronted : but if you must know the truth , I do not quite like the subject of your discourse ...
... looks ! why , we have affronted her I suppose , by telling her that she will spoil her beauty by crying . No indeed , I answered , I am not affronted : but if you must know the truth , I do not quite like the subject of your discourse ...
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Page 84 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 50 - Let him that stole steal no more : but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 36 - For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 162 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 122 - And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Page 147 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, * neither shall fruit be in the vines. The labor of the olive shall fail, * and the fields shall yield no meat ; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, * and there shall be no herd in the stalls : Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, * I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 157 - For, behold, the day cometh, That shall burn as an oven ; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : And the day that cometh shall burn them up, Saith the LORD of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 53 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 2 - In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety ; not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array ; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Page 24 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.