The Living Age, 87. köideE. Littell & Company, 1865 |
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... mind I never would say a word to any one . It is so strange that she should have no proper pride ! but you know , Lucilla , it is dreadful to think if anything should come of it ! though I am sure I don't know what could come of it ...
... mind I never would say a word to any one . It is so strange that she should have no proper pride ! but you know , Lucilla , it is dreadful to think if anything should come of it ! though I am sure I don't know what could come of it ...
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... mind , " Then it is only you , and not that pretty little thing , that is Miss Marjoribanks ! " was about as exasperating a sensation as one is likely to meet with . Lucilla understood perfectly well General Travers's look , and for the ...
... mind , " Then it is only you , and not that pretty little thing , that is Miss Marjoribanks ! " was about as exasperating a sensation as one is likely to meet with . Lucilla understood perfectly well General Travers's look , and for the ...
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... mind has its moments of unbelief . It was a dis- couraging experience to meet with ; but she never permitted it seriously to inter- rupt her exertions for the good of her kind . You should not have so poor an opinion of your friends ...
... mind has its moments of unbelief . It was a dis- couraging experience to meet with ; but she never permitted it seriously to inter- rupt her exertions for the good of her kind . You should not have so poor an opinion of your friends ...
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... mind of Miss Marjoribanks ; and even her sense of pain at the unbelief of her followers was mingled with that pity for their weakness which involves pardon . Even when they wounded her she was sorry for them . It was nature that was in ...
... mind of Miss Marjoribanks ; and even her sense of pain at the unbelief of her followers was mingled with that pity for their weakness which involves pardon . Even when they wounded her she was sorry for them . It was nature that was in ...
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... mind in a moment of discouragement . She said " Poor Tom ! " and felt as if for the moment she had some- thing to lean on , and was comforted . We mention this fact rather as a contribution to the history of those phenomena of the hu ...
... mind in a moment of discouragement . She said " Poor Tom ! " and felt as if for the moment she had some- thing to lean on , and was comforted . We mention this fact rather as a contribution to the history of those phenomena of the hu ...
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Page 81 - And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Page 478 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 243 - I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world ; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 75 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 478 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 478 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 80 - And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Page 242 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
Page 472 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.
Page 242 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!