Recollections of a Long LifeJoseph Packard, Thomas Jones Packard |
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... labor the wages were two shillings a day , and six pence more when laborers were scarce . Good men in my father's ... labored on the public buildings and cut the streets and avenues of Washington City , received seventy dollars a year ...
... labor the wages were two shillings a day , and six pence more when laborers were scarce . Good men in my father's ... labored on the public buildings and cut the streets and avenues of Washington City , received seventy dollars a year ...
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... labored eight years very successfully . In 1884 I received a paper from there contain- ing a notice of a reunion of churches ; where , at one service , a Thanksgiving sermon preached by my father in 1795 was read , as was stated , to ...
... labored eight years very successfully . In 1884 I received a paper from there contain- ing a notice of a reunion of churches ; where , at one service , a Thanksgiving sermon preached by my father in 1795 was read , as was stated , to ...
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... labored most diligently in these various fields , but ever with one purpose - to serve the cause of God and man , and though I shall often refer to him and his untiring efforts for our good , I must here pay him the tribute of filial ...
... labored most diligently in these various fields , but ever with one purpose - to serve the cause of God and man , and though I shall often refer to him and his untiring efforts for our good , I must here pay him the tribute of filial ...
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... labored most diligently in these various fields , but ever with one purpose — to serve the cause of God and man , and though I shall often refer to him and his untiring efforts for our good , I must here pay him the tribute of filial ...
... labored most diligently in these various fields , but ever with one purpose — to serve the cause of God and man , and though I shall often refer to him and his untiring efforts for our good , I must here pay him the tribute of filial ...
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... labors . The poet Moore writes beautifully of " Those evening bells , How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime . " I cannot adopt his language nor did he speak of ...
... labors . The poet Moore writes beautifully of " Those evening bells , How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime . " I cannot adopt his language nor did he speak of ...
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Page 229 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 204 - Let not conscience make you linger, Nor of fitness fondly dream ; All the fitness he requireth, Is to feel your need of him ; This he gives you ; 'Tis the Spirit's rising beam.
Page 292 - And I am sure that when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Page 30 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 312 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 31 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Page 182 - shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever.
Page 7 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 123 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Page 208 - Glory be to God on high, on earth peace, good will towards men...