The Sunday Magazine for Family Reading, Volume 1Daldy, Isbister & Company, 1878 |
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Page 103
... seemed fit only for the growth of man's food , and the tread of weary feet in the common labours of life- covered with its white immaculate carpet- seem like a celestial floor on which white- winged angels on lofty errands of mercy ...
... seemed fit only for the growth of man's food , and the tread of weary feet in the common labours of life- covered with its white immaculate carpet- seem like a celestial floor on which white- winged angels on lofty errands of mercy ...
Page 107
... seemed to have made no progress at all . They had by this time become perfectly callous and indifferent to all instruction , except it were followed by some temporal benefit . Moreover , they seemed to regard us as lawful prizes , to be ...
... seemed to have made no progress at all . They had by this time become perfectly callous and indifferent to all instruction , except it were followed by some temporal benefit . Moreover , they seemed to regard us as lawful prizes , to be ...
Page 132
... seemed very hard that the happy and bright shepherd boy - his father's pet - should be suddenly caged like the fluttering bird , and even thrust into a place where he could not see the glo- rious sun , or breathe the free and pleasant ...
... seemed very hard that the happy and bright shepherd boy - his father's pet - should be suddenly caged like the fluttering bird , and even thrust into a place where he could not see the glo- rious sun , or breathe the free and pleasant ...
Page 134
... seemed but half the distance . It just eventide when they entered the gate . On moved the star until it stood still over the place where the young child was . The camels knelt down , the Magi dismounted ; was and the servants , bearing ...
... seemed but half the distance . It just eventide when they entered the gate . On moved the star until it stood still over the place where the young child was . The camels knelt down , the Magi dismounted ; was and the servants , bearing ...
Page 149
... seemed to be pointing out a good quality , and no one could be quicker than Mrs. Her- ford in seizing on such a clue . " I might almost as well be childless , " remarked Mrs. Herford as they drew their comfortable chairs round the ...
... seemed to be pointing out a good quality , and no one could be quicker than Mrs. Her- ford in seizing on such a clue . " I might almost as well be childless , " remarked Mrs. Herford as they drew their comfortable chairs round 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.