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Page 35 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 116 - Si vous &tes heureuse, je ne suis pas malheureuse," used to be my motto to you. I must be glad that you are happy; but I must confess I have too much self, not to feel it a tug at my heart, the no-chance I have of enjoying your society again. "Will your primitive cap never dine with me, and enjoy a quiet society ? but really, am I never to see you again ? Your parliament friend does not wear a broad-brimmed hat; so pray, pray, pray do not put on the bonnet. So come to me and be my love, in a dove-coloured...
Page 115 - MCO" I arrived at New Burlington-street without my Irish harp, and with a beating heart ; and I heard the high-sounding titles of princes and ambassadors, and dukes and duchesses, announced, long before my own poor plebeian Hibernian name puzzled the porter, and was bandied from footman to footman, as all names are bandied, which are not written down in the red-book of Fashion, nor rendered familiar to the lips of her insolent menials. How...
Page 20 - We sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Page 115 - ... ascended the marble stairs, with their gilt balustrade, I was agitated by emotions, similar to those which drew from my countryman, Maurice Quill,* his frank exclamation in the heat of the battle of Vittoria, " Oh, Jasus, I wish some one of my greatest enemies was kicking me down Dame-street ! " Lady C k met me at the door of that suite of apartments which opens with a brilliant boudoir, and terminates with a sombre conservatory, where eternal twilights fall upon fountains of rose-water which...
Page 67 - Monday next after the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary...

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