Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes: A Collection of Nearly Three Thousand Facts, Incidents, Narratives, Examples and Testimonies, Containing the Best of the Kind in Most Former Collections, and Some Hundreds in Addition, Original and Selected, the Whole Critically Arranged and Classified on a New Plan, with Copious Topical and Scriptural IndexesLeavitt and Allen, 1848 - 891 pages |
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... took him out on our chesnut parties . He shook off all our chesnuts for us , and when he could not shake them off , he would go to the very end of the limb and knock them off with his fist . One day , we stopped at a tavern and drank ...
... took him out on our chesnut parties . He shook off all our chesnuts for us , and when he could not shake them off , he would go to the very end of the limb and knock them off with his fist . One day , we stopped at a tavern and drank ...
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... took her as a slave , of the vilest description . This man was sergeant of artillery in the late war , un- der Lord Lake , and had an active part in most of the bloody conflicts of the time . This woman's attachment to her partner was ...
... took her as a slave , of the vilest description . This man was sergeant of artillery in the late war , un- der Lord Lake , and had an active part in most of the bloody conflicts of the time . This woman's attachment to her partner was ...
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... took it out and read it . It was a letter from this young man's mo- ther , in which she thanked him for having sent her a part of his wages to relieve her misery ; and finished with telling him , that God would reward him for his duti ...
... took it out and read it . It was a letter from this young man's mo- ther , in which she thanked him for having sent her a part of his wages to relieve her misery ; and finished with telling him , that God would reward him for his duti ...
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... took hold of his hand . 66 Rise , his business nearly lost , and his prospect young man , " said he : " I have but one that of ending his days at a gallows : daughter in the world , for whose happi- but what harrowed his heart most was ...
... took hold of his hand . 66 Rise , his business nearly lost , and his prospect young man , " said he : " I have but one that of ending his days at a gallows : daughter in the world , for whose happi- but what harrowed his heart most was ...
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... took the nearest path home . The one who had only a mother , came in ; and , finding his mother did not know him , he asked for lodging ; to whom she replied , she could not lodge him ; that there was a tavern not far from the place ...
... took the nearest path home . The one who had only a mother , came in ; and , finding his mother did not know him , he asked for lodging ; to whom she replied , she could not lodge him ; that there was a tavern not far from the place ...
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Page 346 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 148 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 318 - Ye are the salt of the earth" — " Ye are the light of the world.
Page 638 - I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel...
Page 462 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Page 374 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 269 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
Page 151 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 401 - Socrates, peaceably philosophizing with his friends, appears the most agreeable that could be wished for ; that of Jesus, expiring in the midst of agonizing pains, abused, insulted, and accused by a whole nation, is the most horrible that could be feared.
Page 248 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...