Journal and Biographical Notice of Chloe B. Conant BierceElm Street Print. Company, 1869 - 151 pages |
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Journal and Biographical Notice of Chloe B. Conant Bierce Daniel Everest Bierce No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 36 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 29 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 51 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts, the silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 38 - Invidious grave ! — how dost thou rend in sunder Whom love has knit, and sympathy made one ! A tie more stubborn far than .nature's band. Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweetener of life, and solder of society, I owe thee much.
Page 107 - For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Page 51 - This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain ? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Page 31 - Then, let the wildest storms arise, Let tempests mingle earth and skies, No fatal shipwreck shall I fear, But all my treasures with me bear.
Page 29 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 21 - The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 45 - His head be filled with dew, and His locks with the drops of the night.