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Page 10
So when , on returning home after weary journeys and a tedious absence , we
have found that the whole household was moved , and that all , down even to the
tottering babe , with outstretched hands , and beaming faces , and joyful ...
So when , on returning home after weary journeys and a tedious absence , we
have found that the whole household was moved , and that all , down even to the
tottering babe , with outstretched hands , and beaming faces , and joyful ...
Page 18
Doubtful blessing ! What enjoyment had there been in life so long as the face -
cloth was left on his eyes , and his limbs were bound fast in the cerements of the
tomb ? He emerges from the grave's black mouth a living , 18 THE
INHERITANCE .
Doubtful blessing ! What enjoyment had there been in life so long as the face -
cloth was left on his eyes , and his limbs were bound fast in the cerements of the
tomb ? He emerges from the grave's black mouth a living , 18 THE
INHERITANCE .
Page 30
... a home , where they have never looked on each other's faces ; but a blind
father sits by the dull fire with a blind boy on his knee , and the sightless mother
nurses at her bosom a sightless babe , that never gladdened her with its happy
smile .
... a home , where they have never looked on each other's faces ; but a blind
father sits by the dull fire with a blind boy on his knee , and the sightless mother
nurses at her bosom a sightless babe , that never gladdened her with its happy
smile .
Page 38
With no blush burning on his beardless cheek , but with an expression rather of
satisfaction in his face , the boy was polishing the fetter on his ankle . Poor wretch
, he was vain of its silvery sheen , and raised sad thoughts in us of pity and ...
With no blush burning on his beardless cheek , but with an expression rather of
satisfaction in his face , the boy was polishing the fetter on his ankle . Poor wretch
, he was vain of its silvery sheen , and raised sad thoughts in us of pity and ...
Page 44
In the face of all past and much bitter experience , how many among ourselves
live under the delusion that , though the happiness they seek and expect to find
in the world has , in all bygone time , eluded their grasp , in the object they now ...
In the face of all past and much bitter experience , how many among ourselves
live under the delusion that , though the happiness they seek and expect to find
in the world has , in all bygone time , eluded their grasp , in the object they now ...
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| Title | Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints: Illustrated in a Series of Discourses from the Colossians |
| Author | Thomas Guthrie |
| Publisher | Adam and Charles Black, 1858 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2016 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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