The Sunday Magazine for Family Reading, Volume 1Daldy, Isbister & Company, 1878 |
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... HERFORD COURT . HERFORD was one of the little sea- board parishes which encircle England ; each one containing its small , grey , storm- beaten church , perched on a crag over- grown with ivy and moss , or built low down on the shore ...
... HERFORD COURT . HERFORD was one of the little sea- board parishes which encircle England ; each one containing its small , grey , storm- beaten church , perched on a crag over- grown with ivy and moss , or built low down on the shore ...
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... Herford , who was more than thirty years younger than her husband , had been a widow with one child when she married a second time . Until this marriage her life had been spent in large towns , chiefly in London , amid the constant ...
... Herford , who was more than thirty years younger than her husband , had been a widow with one child when she married a second time . Until this marriage her life had been spent in large towns , chiefly in London , amid the constant ...
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... HERFORD . If it were possible for us to take our last journey as we take other journeys , half the terror of it would be gone . We shrink more , perhaps , from going alone than from entering into an utterly unknown state of existence ...
... HERFORD . If it were possible for us to take our last journey as we take other journeys , half the terror of it would be gone . We shrink more , perhaps , from going alone than from entering into an utterly unknown state of existence ...
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... Herford of age when his half - brother was born . He favoured sometimes one , and sometimes the was already a thoughtful , advanced lad , pre- other , according to the caprice of the moment ; maturely wise from knocking about in the but ...
... Herford of age when his half - brother was born . He favoured sometimes one , and sometimes the was already a thoughtful , advanced lad , pre- other , according to the caprice of the moment ; maturely wise from knocking about in the but ...
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... Herford grew more obstinate and tyrannical as he ad- vanced in years , and began to sink under the infirmities of his great age . His increasing deafness and dimness of sight made him increasingly suspicious and unreasonable . On the ...
... Herford grew more obstinate and tyrannical as he ad- vanced in years , and began to sink under the infirmities of his great age . His increasing deafness and dimness of sight made him increasingly suspicious and unreasonable . On the ...
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Popular passages
Page 292 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 129 - It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Page 272 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Page 165 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 183 - For the needy shall not always be forgotten : the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Page 88 - Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up...
Page 300 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed...
Page 518 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 345 - I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, And floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, And my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, As willows by the water courses.
Page 100 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother ! or, Ah sister ! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord ! or, Ah his glory ! He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.