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... Maclean this is the proof from the printer's ; and master wants me to carry it back with me , if Mr. Maclean can look at it now . ' 29 The servant took it upstairs into the parlour and delivered the message . " Tell the lad I will see ...
... Maclean this is the proof from the printer's ; and master wants me to carry it back with me , if Mr. Maclean can look at it now . ' 29 The servant took it upstairs into the parlour and delivered the message . " Tell the lad I will see ...
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Upstairs in the parlour it was warm and cheer- ful . Mr. Maclean was seated in an arm - chair , by the table , in front of a well - piled fire . Opposite him sat Mrs. Maclean , and on each side of the fire- place were the children ...
Upstairs in the parlour it was warm and cheer- ful . Mr. Maclean was seated in an arm - chair , by the table , in front of a well - piled fire . Opposite him sat Mrs. Maclean , and on each side of the fire- place were the children ...
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... Maclean . " I am obliged to confess I do not know . People who have written on the subject are not at all sure about it . Some think that the impressions made by seals in wax , and the words stamped on bricks found in the ruins of ...
... Maclean . " I am obliged to confess I do not know . People who have written on the subject are not at all sure about it . Some think that the impressions made by seals in wax , and the words stamped on bricks found in the ruins of ...
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... Maclean , " the art of printing has been known so long , I cannot say ; but it is very ancient in China . Their way of printing , however , is different from ours . We have a separate type for every letter ; they a separate block for ...
... Maclean , " the art of printing has been known so long , I cannot say ; but it is very ancient in China . Their way of printing , however , is different from ours . We have a separate type for every letter ; they a separate block for ...
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... Maclean at the door , for he had not yet come home . Since that day week he had been to his printer's upon business , and seeing in the ware- house the lad who had brought the proof to his house a few days before , asked about him ; and ...
... Maclean at the door , for he had not yet come home . Since that day week he had been to his printer's upon business , and seeing in the ware- house the lad who had brought the proof to his house a few days before , asked about him ; and ...
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Page 334 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 331 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 31 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 104 - My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse...
Page 327 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 327 - T'HERE is a happy land, *• Far, far away, Where saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day. Oh, how they sweetly sing, Worthy is our Saviour King, Loud let His praises ring — Praise, praise for aye.
Page 316 - Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Page 218 - Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Page 285 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein ; who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 209 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.