Social evils, and their remedy, Volume 3Smith, Elder and Company, 1835 - Great Britain |
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... lady by his side , very like Miss Katherine Adams , and they were sure that the post - boy wore a white favour , and now the bells had just struck up , there could not be a doubt . Miss Penny had always thought Mr. Frank Hilton was a ...
... lady by his side , very like Miss Katherine Adams , and they were sure that the post - boy wore a white favour , and now the bells had just struck up , there could not be a doubt . Miss Penny had always thought Mr. Frank Hilton was a ...
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... ladies ; they had already fastened on the male gossip , and he had stopped , and stood with his hands upraised while they poured into his ears their budget of news , - Mr. Grant and his sister walked quietly home , leaving their nephew ...
... ladies ; they had already fastened on the male gossip , and he had stopped , and stood with his hands upraised while they poured into his ears their budget of news , - Mr. Grant and his sister walked quietly home , leaving their nephew ...
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... ladies were sitting at the breakfast table with their mother . The elder of them was in the act of pour- ing out a second ... lady sat with her hands and eyes uplifted . " Who is dead in the name of wonder , Molly ? " screamed Miss Penny ...
... ladies were sitting at the breakfast table with their mother . The elder of them was in the act of pour- ing out a second ... lady sat with her hands and eyes uplifted . " Who is dead in the name of wonder , Molly ? " screamed Miss Penny ...
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... ladies taking out their curl papers as they read ; at last they sallied forth to gather the cream of the news about the Vicar's sudden death . Mr. Holt had been a kind , easy man ; harmless , except in a negative sense , but quite unfit ...
... ladies taking out their curl papers as they read ; at last they sallied forth to gather the cream of the news about the Vicar's sudden death . Mr. Holt had been a kind , easy man ; harmless , except in a negative sense , but quite unfit ...
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... Lady Manners , who who are real quality , but I should never think of coming in their way , and for the matter of that , I am sure I meant no offence to Madame Withers , but was getting up to make my curtsey , when one of the misses ...
... Lady Manners , who who are real quality , but I should never think of coming in their way , and for the matter of that , I am sure I meant no offence to Madame Withers , but was getting up to make my curtsey , when one of the misses ...
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Page 88 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Page 64 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 46 - I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Page 66 - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Page 65 - But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 40 - Know the Lord ; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 67 - For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
Page 75 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God...
Page 66 - But ye have not so learned Christ ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus...
Page 68 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.