The Chronicles of an Old Manor HouseReligious Tract Society, 1866 - 380 pages |
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... passing away from England , and the true light was beginning to shine . But as in the natural world , so in the moral and the spiritual , the dawn is gradual in its approach ; and there were black clouds of ignorance and vice which ...
... passing away from England , and the true light was beginning to shine . But as in the natural world , so in the moral and the spiritual , the dawn is gradual in its approach ; and there were black clouds of ignorance and vice which ...
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... passed some of the earlier years of his manhood in military service , had retired to his pleasant manor house , which lay deep in the heart of a richly fertile county , surrounded by its own wide estate . Here Gilbert Nowell settled ...
... passed some of the earlier years of his manhood in military service , had retired to his pleasant manor house , which lay deep in the heart of a richly fertile county , surrounded by its own wide estate . Here Gilbert Nowell settled ...
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... passed away with- out a meeting , until the friendship became rather a pleasant memory of the past , than an actuating feeling of the present times . It is possible , also , that the remembrance of past scenes of ungodly rioting , and ...
... passed away with- out a meeting , until the friendship became rather a pleasant memory of the past , than an actuating feeling of the present times . It is possible , also , that the remembrance of past scenes of ungodly rioting , and ...
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... passed away in this sport ; and Gilbert Nowell , with his boy still by his side , was descending a wooded hill some two or three miles from home , when his attention was attracted towards a horseman in the valley 14 FROM DARKNESS TO ...
... passed away in this sport ; and Gilbert Nowell , with his boy still by his side , was descending a wooded hill some two or three miles from home , when his attention was attracted towards a horseman in the valley 14 FROM DARKNESS TO ...
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... passed over since then ; and those years have , doubtless , brought their changes to each of us . " " " Nothing can be more certain , my friend , " said the goodnatured lord of the manor , " and we shall find time to speak of these ...
... passed over since then ; and those years have , doubtless , brought their changes to each of us . " " " Nothing can be more certain , my friend , " said the goodnatured lord of the manor , " and we shall find time to speak of these ...
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Page 368 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Page 370 - WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad.
Page 127 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts : Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Page 126 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 334 - Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Page 363 - Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison : 10 Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.
Page 59 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 208 - They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. 22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Page 335 - In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust ; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
Page 290 - And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.