Good Words, 19. köideAlexander Strahan and Company, 1878 |
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... Look at this beautiful heath . Mrs. Ross is very proud of her heaths . " The small white fingers scarcely touched the beautiful blossoms of the plant ; but which were the more palely roseate and waxen ? If one were to grasp that hand ...
... Look at this beautiful heath . Mrs. Ross is very proud of her heaths . " The small white fingers scarcely touched the beautiful blossoms of the plant ; but which were the more palely roseate and waxen ? If one were to grasp that hand ...
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... look very bad indeed if applied to a single span . Now the curved top - boom makes the transition an easy one . The last six spans on the Dundee side , so far as they belong to the Tay Bridge contract , are short ones , being only ...
... look very bad indeed if applied to a single span . Now the curved top - boom makes the transition an easy one . The last six spans on the Dundee side , so far as they belong to the Tay Bridge contract , are short ones , being only ...
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... look on a large scale at the conversion of man- kind ! of North America , has received the fullest streams of Christian life . ( 2. ) Again , let us leave the question of the diversity of creeds , and look at the diversities of ...
... look on a large scale at the conversion of man- kind ! of North America , has received the fullest streams of Christian life . ( 2. ) Again , let us leave the question of the diversity of creeds , and look at the diversities of ...
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... look To look at her could any man refuse ? And now she rises and goes away ; and all the glad summer - time and the sunshine have gone ; and the cold wind shivers through the trees , and it breathes only of farewell . Farewell , O ...
... look To look at her could any man refuse ? And now she rises and goes away ; and all the glad summer - time and the sunshine have gone ; and the cold wind shivers through the trees , and it breathes only of farewell . Farewell , O ...
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... look as she came along this narrow passage ? Like the arch coquette of this land of gas- light and glowing colours ? or like the pale , serious , proud girl who was fond of sketch- ing the elm at Prince's Gate ? A strange nervousness ...
... look as she came along this narrow passage ? Like the arch coquette of this land of gas- light and glowing colours ? or like the pale , serious , proud girl who was fond of sketch- ing the elm at Prince's Gate ? A strange nervousness ...
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Page 173 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 352 - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones Judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 539 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 47 - For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Page 557 - He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on King's errand come; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly' Expression found its home ; The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome.
Page 424 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Page 89 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 94 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. "And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Page 467 - From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot. obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it.