The Sacred Annual: A Gift for All SeasonsT. K. Collins, Jr., 1851 - 200 pages |
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... character , that the gazer was continually at a loss how to describe it . When she looked on Azel , her eye kindled with the fulness of love - it might almost be said , with the fulness of joy ; but again there was an abstraction , a ...
... character , that the gazer was continually at a loss how to describe it . When she looked on Azel , her eye kindled with the fulness of love - it might almost be said , with the fulness of joy ; but again there was an abstraction , a ...
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... character of the mysterious stranger . A multitude of fishes was enclosed , and the awe - struck disciples came on shore . Here was a fresh object of wonder . A fire of coals was burning , with fish and bread laid upon it ; and once ...
... character of the mysterious stranger . A multitude of fishes was enclosed , and the awe - struck disciples came on shore . Here was a fresh object of wonder . A fire of coals was burning , with fish and bread laid upon it ; and once ...
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... character of the affair , which , if not unprecedented , rendered it singular in the usual current of human events . This Bible formed two volumes in folio , which have been justly praised for the strength and beauty of the paper , the ...
... character of the affair , which , if not unprecedented , rendered it singular in the usual current of human events . This Bible formed two volumes in folio , which have been justly praised for the strength and beauty of the paper , the ...
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... character , and to have made their laws , and regulated their social institutions , in conformity to that low estimate . A despotism at once suspicious , capricious , and degrading was established , that rendered woman an abject slave ...
... character , and to have made their laws , and regulated their social institutions , in conformity to that low estimate . A despotism at once suspicious , capricious , and degrading was established , that rendered woman an abject slave ...
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... character of both . The vice of evil and despotic passions , of narrow - minded , mean suspicions , degraded the character of man ; while timid subserviency , deceitful obsequiousness , subtlety , cunning , and fraud , were the most ...
... character of both . The vice of evil and despotic passions , of narrow - minded , mean suspicions , degraded the character of man ; while timid subserviency , deceitful obsequiousness , subtlety , cunning , and fraud , were the most ...
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The Sacred Annual: A Gift for All Seasons (Classic Reprint) Horatio Hastings Weld No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 171 - He that hath the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
Page 76 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 64 - But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Page 168 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 95 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 170 - Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself ? He said. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Page 173 - And the king was sorry : nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
Page 149 - Now learn a parable of the fig tree ; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh : so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Page 63 - And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
Page 169 - To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.