The Fireside annual [afterw.] pictorial annual [formerly Our own fireside] conducted by C. Bullock |
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AGNES GIBERNE Annis answer asked beauty better Betty Bible Bishop BISHOP OF SODOR blessing called CHELSEA BUN child Christ Christian Church Church of England Collins Mead crest dear dear Phoebe death Dermot Divine Dolly Dorothy England Ethel eyes face faith Fanny father feel Fenton Frances Ridley Havergal FULHAM Gatty girls give glad God's grace hand happy heart heaven Heraldry Holy honour hope Jane Jesus King Lady Landseer Latrobe living London look Lord Madam Mamma Mark Lemon mean mind Mirrie Miss Randolph Molly morning mother never Nina once Phoebe poor prayer Protestantism Queen racter Rhoda RICHARD WILTON seemed smile soul speak spirit suppose sure sweet talk tell thee things THOMAS FULLER thou thought tion told truth voice Wayatt wish words young
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Page 374 - For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Page 40 - How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains and seeketh that which is gone astray ? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep than of the ninety and nine which went not astray...
Page 348 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 255 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 700 - God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Page 565 - ... the four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Page 476 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 128 - Henceforth I call you not servants, but I have called you friends.
Page 165 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.