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... certainly time it was finished , " answered Fanny , as she reached her work - box , and took out her netting- needles and her tangled crimson silk ; " I am sure it has been a perfect annoy- ance to me for the last fortnight , and I am ...
... certainly time it was finished , " answered Fanny , as she reached her work - box , and took out her netting- needles and her tangled crimson silk ; " I am sure it has been a perfect annoy- ance to me for the last fortnight , and I am ...
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... certainly not make such a mistake , and strangers are not likely to take any notice of us . And even if they should set us down for servants , we need not be offended , for they are a very useful and respectable part of the community ...
... certainly not make such a mistake , and strangers are not likely to take any notice of us . And even if they should set us down for servants , we need not be offended , for they are a very useful and respectable part of the community ...
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... certainly very light and pretty , " responded her cousin , in a tone of ap- proval . " Yes , it is sweetly pretty , " said Amelia , employing a phrase which seems a great favourite among some young ladies ; 66 none of the others will do ...
... certainly very light and pretty , " responded her cousin , in a tone of ap- proval . " Yes , it is sweetly pretty , " said Amelia , employing a phrase which seems a great favourite among some young ladies ; 66 none of the others will do ...
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Home life. cannot say that I have envied your task , but I have certainly admired your patience ; the very idea of poring over such a mass of information quite frightens me . " " How can you talk so foolishly , Kate ! " answered ...
Home life. cannot say that I have envied your task , but I have certainly admired your patience ; the very idea of poring over such a mass of information quite frightens me . " " How can you talk so foolishly , Kate ! " answered ...
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... Certainly , " said Helen , " but then if we find ourselves deficient " " If we find , " interrupted Charlotte , " that we cannot rightly discharge those duties which devolve upon us now , we may be 79 FIRE - SIDE MISSIONARIES .
... Certainly , " said Helen , " but then if we find ourselves deficient " " If we find , " interrupted Charlotte , " that we cannot rightly discharge those duties which devolve upon us now , we may be 79 FIRE - SIDE MISSIONARIES .
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Page 102 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 175 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me : — " My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?
Page 117 - Therefore," says he, in his lofty reasoning, " let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours; whether the world, or life, or death, or things present or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's !
Page 29 - Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Page 42 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 29 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 55 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 48 - For the love of Christ constraineth us —because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.
Page 56 - SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one ; The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.
Page 52 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.