The Living Age, Volume 87E. Littell & Company, 1865 |
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... wish you to do why I kept out of his way . For my wife's sake , - and for yours , if you will allow me to say so , I do not wish to come to any open quarrel with him ; but if we met , a quarrel would , I think , be inevitable . Mary has ...
... wish you to do why I kept out of his way . For my wife's sake , - and for yours , if you will allow me to say so , I do not wish to come to any open quarrel with him ; but if we met , a quarrel would , I think , be inevitable . Mary has ...
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... wish I could go down to receive him , " said Mr. Amedroz , plaintively . " I hope he won't take it amiss . " " You may be sure he won't do that . " " Perhaps I can to - morrow . " " Dear papa , you had better not think of it till the ...
... wish I could go down to receive him , " said Mr. Amedroz , plaintively . " I hope he won't take it amiss . " " You may be sure he won't do that . " " Perhaps I can to - morrow . " " Dear papa , you had better not think of it till the ...
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... wish to talk of his farm . In her anxiety to find a topic which would not be painful , she went from the cattle to the cow . " You can't think what a pet Bessy has been with us . And she seems to think that she is privileged to go every ...
... wish to talk of his farm . In her anxiety to find a topic which would not be painful , she went from the cattle to the cow . " You can't think what a pet Bessy has been with us . And she seems to think that she is privileged to go every ...
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... wishes to speak with you , Miss Lucy , " said the butler , entering has ' tily . " I must go , Tom , -good - bye . I ... wish is for death . There are subtler influences in our nature than those that work by the brain or the blood , and ...
... wishes to speak with you , Miss Lucy , " said the butler , entering has ' tily . " I must go , Tom , -good - bye . I ... wish is for death . There are subtler influences in our nature than those that work by the brain or the blood , and ...
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... wish it would quiet the Chief Baron , " muttered Tom ; and Sir Brook , not hearing him correctly , continued , - " I think so I think the Chief Baron eminently calculated to take a proper esti- mate of my discovery . A man of fine in ...
... wish it would quiet the Chief Baron , " muttered Tom ; and Sir Brook , not hearing him correctly , continued , - " I think so I think the Chief Baron eminently calculated to take a proper esti- mate of my discovery . A man of fine in ...
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Page 81 - And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Page 478 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 243 - I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world ; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 75 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 478 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 478 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 80 - And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Page 242 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
Page 472 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.
Page 242 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!