Narrative of the life and travels of serjeant B-, written by himself |
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... able to bear it ; and before I was five years of age , when I was sent to school , I could repeat various psalms , hymns , and passages of Scrip- ture . She employed herself frequently in spinning on the lint wheel , at which time I ...
... able to bear it ; and before I was five years of age , when I was sent to school , I could repeat various psalms , hymns , and passages of Scrip- ture . She employed herself frequently in spinning on the lint wheel , at which time I ...
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... able to get off and on my loom . Notwithstanding my very straitened circum- stances , I found ways and means , upon the winter Sabbath evenings , to spare a halfpenny for a candle , that I might be able to read Mr. Boston's Fourfold ...
... able to get off and on my loom . Notwithstanding my very straitened circum- stances , I found ways and means , upon the winter Sabbath evenings , to spare a halfpenny for a candle , that I might be able to read Mr. Boston's Fourfold ...
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... able to reach it , through weakness , and succeeded in getting a quarter stone at one shilling and fourpence ; and all the money I had in the world , after paying this , was twopence . When I was on my way home , walking along the Tweed ...
... able to reach it , through weakness , and succeeded in getting a quarter stone at one shilling and fourpence ; and all the money I had in the world , after paying this , was twopence . When I was on my way home , walking along the Tweed ...
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Robert Butler. whole of my bounty in the hands of a respect- able man in Peebles . Along with other re- cruits , I was marched to Edinburgh , and from thence to Linlithgow , at which place inquiry was made if there was any lad in our ...
Robert Butler. whole of my bounty in the hands of a respect- able man in Peebles . Along with other re- cruits , I was marched to Edinburgh , and from thence to Linlithgow , at which place inquiry was made if there was any lad in our ...
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... able execution on the German flute , I was en- couraged myself to give instructions on that instrument ; and the money I received in this way enabled me to defray the expense of my own teacher , and of buying instruments , mu- sic , & c ...
... able execution on the German flute , I was en- couraged myself to give instructions on that instrument ; and the money I received in this way enabled me to defray the expense of my own teacher , and of buying instruments , mu- sic , & c ...
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Page 54 - LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave : thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a. moment ; in his favour is life : weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Page 177 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 187 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 177 - I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Page 51 - I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me : refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Page 222 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 138 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded : but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 202 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 65 - What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor ? " saith the Lord God of Hosts. Moreover the Lord saith, " Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Page 76 - O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is, 2 to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.