Life and history of Betty Bolaine, interspersed with original poetry [by E. Burgess]. |
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Page 35 - Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.‎
Page 5 - Tho' on pleasure she was bent, " She had a frugal mind." constantly requiring her suitors to defray the expences of her diffent entertainments, and boasting of the number of treats, as she styled them, she was in the habit of receiving.—As her first conquest of note was productive of many such treats, it merits being recorded.‎