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... Fortune - telling . CHAP . VII . .... 88 Plans suggested for the Reformation of the Gipsies , with some encouraging accounts from Prussia and Bristol Letters from a Seotch Clergyman , relating to a Gipsy CHAP . VIII . Colony in the ...
... Fortune - telling . CHAP . VII . .... 88 Plans suggested for the Reformation of the Gipsies , with some encouraging accounts from Prussia and Bristol Letters from a Seotch Clergyman , relating to a Gipsy CHAP . VIII . Colony in the ...
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... fortune telling ; so does the Gipsy . The Suder tribes of the same part of the Asiatic Continent , are wanderers , dwelling chiefly in wretched mud huts , who , when they remove from one place to another , carry with them their scanty ...
... fortune telling ; so does the Gipsy . The Suder tribes of the same part of the Asiatic Continent , are wanderers , dwelling chiefly in wretched mud huts , who , when they remove from one place to another , carry with them their scanty ...
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... fortune - telling . He also conversed , in the same language , with an old Gipsy at Norwood . It can be no matter of surprise that this language , as spoken among this people , is generally corrupted , when we consider , that , for many ...
... fortune - telling . He also conversed , in the same language , with an old Gipsy at Norwood . It can be no matter of surprise that this language , as spoken among this people , is generally corrupted , when we consider , that , for many ...
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... fortune - telling , they purchase valuable plate , and sometimes in the same hour pledge it for safety . Such property they have in store against days of adversity and trouble , which , on account of their dishonest habits ,. often ...
... fortune - telling , they purchase valuable plate , and sometimes in the same hour pledge it for safety . Such property they have in store against days of adversity and trouble , which , on account of their dishonest habits ,. often ...
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... fortune - telling . Their baskets introduce them to the servants of families , of whom they beg victuals , to whom they sell trifling wares , and tell their fortunes ; which indeed is their principal aim , as it is their greatest source ...
... fortune - telling . Their baskets introduce them to the servants of families , of whom they beg victuals , to whom they sell trifling wares , and tell their fortunes ; which indeed is their principal aim , as it is their greatest source ...
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ampton asked attended Balaam Bedminster benevolent Bible blessing Bristol called camp CHAP character child Christ Christians church clergyman clothes Committee conversation crimes death distress divine Dorsetshire dying encamped encouraged endeavour England father female Gipsy fortune fortune-telling friends gentleman Gipsy race Gipsy woman give Gloucestershire groschen habits Hampshire happy heard heart heaven hedges Hindostanee holy hop-plantations hope horse ignorant India instruction interesting kind kingdoms of England Kirk Yetholm labour lady language letter live Lord mercy minister Missionary mother neighbourhood never Nordhausen parents parish Persia persons pity poor Gipsy Portsmouth pray prayer promised racter received Redeemer reformed Gipsies religion replied Saviour Scriptures seldom society soon soul Southampton speak Stanley stealing Suder tell tent Testament Timur Beg tion told town tribe wandering wicked wickedness widow women words worship wretched young
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Page 77 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 26 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 77 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 197 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
Page 77 - For ye shall go out with joy, And be led forth with peace: The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page 112 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 198 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; 8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
Page 73 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand piecet of silver.
Page 84 - God and lacking faith, they that be cursed people, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their portion in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Page 93 - He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.