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... fashion now - a - days , " con- tinued Elizabeth , " to paint our world in the darkest colours ; but it always appears to me a very pleasant sort of place ; and if persons choose to be happy and contented in it , I am sure they C 13 ...
... fashion now - a - days , " con- tinued Elizabeth , " to paint our world in the darkest colours ; but it always appears to me a very pleasant sort of place ; and if persons choose to be happy and contented in it , I am sure they C 13 ...
Page 66
... fashion , and trimmed with some of that pale violet- coloured ribbon ; it will look exquisite . " " It is certainly very light and pretty , " responded her cousin , in a tone of ap- proval . " Yes , it is sweetly pretty , " said Amelia ...
... fashion , and trimmed with some of that pale violet- coloured ribbon ; it will look exquisite . " " It is certainly very light and pretty , " responded her cousin , in a tone of ap- proval . " Yes , it is sweetly pretty , " said Amelia ...
Page 69
... fashion- able bonnets which were worn by all the sisters , never for one moment dis- turbed the simple composure of Hester's mind . The family was not a religious one ; and it was only at the repeated request of Amelia , who begged so ...
... fashion- able bonnets which were worn by all the sisters , never for one moment dis- turbed the simple composure of Hester's mind . The family was not a religious one ; and it was only at the repeated request of Amelia , who begged so ...
Page 96
... fashion , everybody will think it an old dress ; or if not , they will conclude that I have not the least taste , to have it made in this way . " Kate , who never manifested much consideration for other people's feelings , now ...
... fashion , everybody will think it an old dress ; or if not , they will conclude that I have not the least taste , to have it made in this way . " Kate , who never manifested much consideration for other people's feelings , now ...
Page 99
... dreams of living in Africa , for then you would have no trouble about what you should wear ! I suppose any fashion would do for the poor savages . " It was very wrong of Kate to speak so lightly 99 FIRE - SIDE MISSIONARIES .
... dreams of living in Africa , for then you would have no trouble about what you should wear ! I suppose any fashion would do for the poor savages . " It was very wrong of Kate to speak so lightly 99 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.