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... interest the spectator . The hale , smiling old dame , her snow - white cap peeping from beneath her ancient bonnet , sat thinking over the tale of olden times , which she had been relating to a neighbor gossip , as they had walked ...
... interest the spectator . The hale , smiling old dame , her snow - white cap peeping from beneath her ancient bonnet , sat thinking over the tale of olden times , which she had been relating to a neighbor gossip , as they had walked ...
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... interest not unmixed with dread , so dark and severe - looking he seemed ; so totally different from their own good , easy pastor . " Darby , " said Susan , as they entered the church , " is not it for all the world like Sunday ? It's ...
... interest not unmixed with dread , so dark and severe - looking he seemed ; so totally different from their own good , easy pastor . " Darby , " said Susan , as they entered the church , " is not it for all the world like Sunday ? It's ...
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... interest , and then proceeded : " There was a man who wandered into a strange country . He found it populous and fertile , its fields fair to the eye , and its pleasures pleasant to the senses . He was a man who loved his fellow mortals ...
... interest , and then proceeded : " There was a man who wandered into a strange country . He found it populous and fertile , its fields fair to the eye , and its pleasures pleasant to the senses . He was a man who loved his fellow mortals ...
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... interests of your grovelling passions ! Ye would seek meat and drink and raiment , the lust of the eye and the pride of life - all before your gracious benefactor ! For these you would employ your six days , for these you would spend ...
... interests of your grovelling passions ! Ye would seek meat and drink and raiment , the lust of the eye and the pride of life - all before your gracious benefactor ! For these you would employ your six days , for these you would spend ...
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... interests of the working classes , by procuring the legal ac- knowledgment of their claims where now they are unheard ; - All this will be important , and well , and of immediate utility , if done wisely . But as respects great measures ...
... interests of the working classes , by procuring the legal ac- knowledgment of their claims where now they are unheard ; - All this will be important , and well , and of immediate utility , if done wisely . But as respects great measures ...
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Popular passages
Page 14 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page 14 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 3 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 16 - Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 4 - Man is the creature of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts.
Page 16 - And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 7 - But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation! Her lot is to be wooed and won; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned and left desolate.
Page 8 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 5 - The love of a delicate female is always shy and silent Even when fortunate, she scarcely breathes it to herself; but when otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace.
Page 16 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.