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... door which lay between the worlds ? I have learned since that perhaps I overrated the spir- ituality of those times , and underrated , not being myself spiritual enough to see all about me , the spirituality of these times . I think I ...
... door which lay between the worlds ? I have learned since that perhaps I overrated the spir- ituality of those times , and underrated , not being myself spiritual enough to see all about me , the spirituality of these times . I think I ...
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... door opened upon a little group of graves , simple and green , without headstone or slab ; poor graves , the memory of whose occupants no one had cared to pre- Good men must have preceded me here , else the poor would not have lain so ...
... door opened upon a little group of graves , simple and green , without headstone or slab ; poor graves , the memory of whose occupants no one had cared to pre- Good men must have preceded me here , else the poor would not have lain so ...
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... door of the people . So I went along the church , a fine old place , such as I had never hoped to be presented to , and went out by the door in the north side into the middle of the church- yard . The door on the other side was chiefly ...
... door of the people . So I went along the church , a fine old place , such as I had never hoped to be presented to , and went out by the door in the north side into the middle of the church- yard . The door on the other side was chiefly ...
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... door opened , and out came the little boy whom I had already seen twice , and who was therefore one of my oldest friends in the place . He came across the road to me , took me by the hand , and said , " Come and see mother . " " Where ...
... door opened , and out came the little boy whom I had already seen twice , and who was therefore one of my oldest friends in the place . He came across the road to me , took me by the hand , and said , " Come and see mother . " " Where ...
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... door that revealed a stair behind . " What can I do for you , sir ? " said the mother , coldly , and with a kind of book - propriety of speech , as she stood on the other side of the little counter , prepared to open box or drawer at ...
... door that revealed a stair behind . " What can I do for you , sir ? " said the mother , coldly , and with a kind of book - propriety of speech , as she stood on the other side of the little counter , prepared to open box or drawer at ...
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Page 281 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 335 - For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Page 36 - So it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 326 - Why sayest thou. O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Page 327 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Page 363 - Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
Page 131 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Page 160 - The tears into his eyes were brought. And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
Page 289 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.
Page 326 - Lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created these things that bringeth out their host by number; he callth them all by names by the greatness of his might for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.