The Christian Parlor Magazine: 1844-1845, Volume 1J. H. Pratt & Company, 1844 |
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... object in this article to enter upon a discussion of the means by which domestic conversation in general may be improved so as to become a rich source of enjoyment ( although that were a theme worthy of a volume ) : but we desire to ...
... object in this article to enter upon a discussion of the means by which domestic conversation in general may be improved so as to become a rich source of enjoyment ( although that were a theme worthy of a volume ) : but we desire to ...
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... object can these qualities be more legiti- mately exercised , than for the comfort and im- provement of a man's own home ? There are his earliest and his primary obligations . Home is his first sphere of action . There he is born- there ...
... object can these qualities be more legiti- mately exercised , than for the comfort and im- provement of a man's own home ? There are his earliest and his primary obligations . Home is his first sphere of action . There he is born- there ...
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... object of his trip to the South , and the success with which he had met . I will give his remarks , very much in his own lan- guage ; and I have no scruples of propriety on the subject , as the remarks were made before the cars started ...
... object of his trip to the South , and the success with which he had met . I will give his remarks , very much in his own lan- guage ; and I have no scruples of propriety on the subject , as the remarks were made before the cars started ...
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... object to evils of which he is the efficient and guilty cause . The book before us is by an authoress who has obtained something of celebrity by her writings , mostly adapted to children and youth . It consists of separate tales , in ...
... object to evils of which he is the efficient and guilty cause . The book before us is by an authoress who has obtained something of celebrity by her writings , mostly adapted to children and youth . It consists of separate tales , in ...
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... object than it shows itself a bubble , and he is forced to give it up . Subsequently he alds : " So poor Fox is gone at last . I am more affected by it than I thought I should be . How speedily has he followed his great rival ! " This ...
... object than it shows itself a bubble , and he is forced to give it up . Subsequently he alds : " So poor Fox is gone at last . I am more affected by it than I thought I should be . How speedily has he followed his great rival ! " This ...
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Page 152 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 213 - And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary His Mother: Behold, this Child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also ; that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
Page 52 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Page 70 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 14 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Page 141 - And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 127 - Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 127 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 141 - The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 32 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.