Days of My Age: Chimney Corner Chats for the Home CirclePriv. print., 1923 - 381 pages |
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... never fully recovered , either in ambition or getting ahead financially . His first resort was to the development of farming projects , lead- ing later to the promotion of using large peat deposits on land owned by him and his neighbors ...
... never fully recovered , either in ambition or getting ahead financially . His first resort was to the development of farming projects , lead- ing later to the promotion of using large peat deposits on land owned by him and his neighbors ...
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... never seen narrated in print , but which he used to relate with gusto , as il- luminating the need of parents realizing how their little critics hold them strictly to account for their promises— even those put off expedients which they ...
... never seen narrated in print , but which he used to relate with gusto , as il- luminating the need of parents realizing how their little critics hold them strictly to account for their promises— even those put off expedients which they ...
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... never do . " Great searchings of heart about keeping word before the exacting court of childhood in this for all parents . But to attempt to tell of the minting from that inexhaustible " lighter vein " of the home and Divin- ity School ...
... never do . " Great searchings of heart about keeping word before the exacting court of childhood in this for all parents . But to attempt to tell of the minting from that inexhaustible " lighter vein " of the home and Divin- ity School ...
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... never seem to light anywhere . " And in connection with that appealing poem of New England memories there is one of his own boyhood home life of which the Bishop told with that zest which was ever in evidence of his perennial youth of ...
... never seem to light anywhere . " And in connection with that appealing poem of New England memories there is one of his own boyhood home life of which the Bishop told with that zest which was ever in evidence of his perennial youth of ...
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... never have any new - fangled electricity about him if he could help it — how much that Deerfield boy- hood explains it all . And like the late Bishop Hunting- ton of Central New York , there was never any country to him quite equal to ...
... never have any new - fangled electricity about him if he could help it — how much that Deerfield boy- hood explains it all . And like the late Bishop Hunting- ton of Central New York , there was never any country to him quite equal to ...
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Days of My Age: Chimney Corner Chats for the Home Circle William Ford Nichols No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 315 - Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost Thy seven-fold gifts impart. Thy blessed unction from above, Is comfort, life, and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight.
Page 224 - Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.
Page 33 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm, And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow...
Page 372 - God, hast taught me from my youth up until now ; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. 16 Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
Page 340 - We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesns Christ ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
Page 325 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Page 329 - Thou waterest her furrows: thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof: thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. 12 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness...
Page 267 - Nova Albion, and that for two causes ; the one in respect of the white banks and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called.
Page 311 - And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient 'of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 298 - Together with all and singular, the appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining ; to have and to hold the above described goods and chattels, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, forever.