New Hope: Or, The Rescue. A Tale of the Great KanawhaBunce, 1855 - 391 pages |
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New Hope, Or the Rescue: A Tale of the Great Kanawha (Classic Reprint) John Lewis No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 386 - The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Page 104 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 386 - The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
Page 104 - Who can find a virtuous woman ? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her — she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
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Page 102 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 110 - He who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something nothing 'twas mine 'tis his and has been slave to thousands; but he who filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, but makes me poor indeed.
Page 115 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 20 - Divided as they are into a thousand forms of policy and religion, there is one point in which they all agree : they equally detest the pageantry of a king, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.
Page 192 - A lass is good, and a glass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather ; The world is good, and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together.