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... Hour at , 692 . Boulogne , the Great Fêtes of , 655 . Brontë , Charlotte , Life of , 305 . Brother and Sister , 27 . Bunsen's God in History , 207 . Calvin , Letters of , 574 . Caterpillars , Arts of , 765 . Children , 607 . Church ...
... Hour at , 692 . Boulogne , the Great Fêtes of , 655 . Brontë , Charlotte , Life of , 305 . Brother and Sister , 27 . Bunsen's God in History , 207 . Calvin , Letters of , 574 . Caterpillars , Arts of , 765 . Children , 607 . Church ...
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... hour of the one thou- sand eight hundred and fifty - sixth year of the Grace of Our Lord . True , those clamorous bells give me pain ; but it will not be any the heavier for being shared by you , and you , and you - besides my own ...
... hour of the one thou- sand eight hundred and fifty - sixth year of the Grace of Our Lord . True , those clamorous bells give me pain ; but it will not be any the heavier for being shared by you , and you , and you - besides my own ...
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... hour unto the ninth , ' quenched in the shadow of the hand that smote the Holy One ? No critic would dream of such a thing . And how one writer challenging another for such an expression from the Christian stand - point could have ...
... hour unto the ninth , ' quenched in the shadow of the hand that smote the Holy One ? No critic would dream of such a thing . And how one writer challenging another for such an expression from the Christian stand - point could have ...
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... hours , the year is dead , Come and sigh , come and weep ! Merry hours , smile instead , For the year is but asleep ; See , it smiles as it is sleeping , Mocking your untimely weeping . As an earthquake rocks a corse In its coffin in ...
... hours , the year is dead , Come and sigh , come and weep ! Merry hours , smile instead , For the year is but asleep ; See , it smiles as it is sleeping , Mocking your untimely weeping . As an earthquake rocks a corse In its coffin in ...
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... hours fly fast ; With each some sorrow dies- With each some shadow flies , Until at last The red dawn in the east Bids weary night depart , And pain is past . Rejoice , then , grieving heart , The hours fly fast ! ' * Be sober , then ...
... hours fly fast ; With each some sorrow dies- With each some shadow flies , Until at last The red dawn in the east Bids weary night depart , And pain is past . Rejoice , then , grieving heart , The hours fly fast ! ' * Be sober , then ...
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Page 4 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 503 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 782 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 711 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Page 672 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 504 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 181 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 504 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want, As the companionless sensitive plant.
Page 776 - And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 803 - COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness.