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... give , and at last declined to take . I paid the postage , and when the man was out of sight , she told me that the letter was from her son , who took that means of letting her know that he was well . The letter was not to be paid for ...
... give , and at last declined to take . I paid the postage , and when the man was out of sight , she told me that the letter was from her son , who took that means of letting her know that he was well . The letter was not to be paid for ...
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... give him satisfaction , as if Mr. Hill had nothing better to do than to inform Mr. Venables , and correct Miss Martineau's blunders . If Mr. Venables had taken an active part in bringing about the greatest moral movement of our age , he ...
... give him satisfaction , as if Mr. Hill had nothing better to do than to inform Mr. Venables , and correct Miss Martineau's blunders . If Mr. Venables had taken an active part in bringing about the greatest moral movement of our age , he ...
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... give no reason why the birds of Juno should have been invoked as witnesses to an oath , the Query about them has suggested to me what may perhaps appear rather an irrelevant little note . Cooper , in his Raven's Nest , makes Mr. Aristo ...
... give no reason why the birds of Juno should have been invoked as witnesses to an oath , the Query about them has suggested to me what may perhaps appear rather an irrelevant little note . Cooper , in his Raven's Nest , makes Mr. Aristo ...
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... give me any account of his life ? The work was originally , I believe , printed in Exeter , 1698 , or thereabouts , as I find it in a [ * The title of Vane's work is , Of the Love of God , and Union with God , 4to . 1657. It is not to ...
... give me any account of his life ? The work was originally , I believe , printed in Exeter , 1698 , or thereabouts , as I find it in a [ * The title of Vane's work is , Of the Love of God , and Union with God , 4to . 1657. It is not to ...
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... give any information touching the church , the ancient tombs and effigies , the Cotton family , the grange , & c ... gives the date of 988 for the conquest of the Chersonese by Vladimir and his marriage with the emperor's sister , and ...
... give any information touching the church , the ancient tombs and effigies , the Cotton family , the grange , & c ... gives the date of 988 for the conquest of the Chersonese by Vladimir and his marriage with the emperor's sister , and ...
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Page 55 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Page 55 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know ? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven ? 43 Jesus therefore answered, and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
Page 333 - If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Page 57 - twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew. To see thee, hear thee, call thee mine, — Oh, misery! must I lose that too? Yet go — on peril's brink we meet ; — Those frightful rocks — that treacherous sea — No, never come again — though sweet, Though heaven, it may be death to thee.
Page 414 - Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey...
Page 150 - And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Page 333 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 167 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 315 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Page 142 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.