The Works of Mrs. Sherwood: Being the Only Uniform Edition Ever Published in the United States ...Harper & Brothers, 1837 - English literature |
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... told you of myself was this , that having rendered my mansion at Plus Caervon too hot to hold me , notwithstanding the snows of the mountains with which it is surrounded , I made the best of my way , with my wife and daughters , to ...
... told you of myself was this , that having rendered my mansion at Plus Caervon too hot to hold me , notwithstanding the snows of the mountains with which it is surrounded , I made the best of my way , with my wife and daughters , to ...
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... told ) , the nurse and the children had strolled through the pleasure - grounds into the churchyard , which is just without the enclosure , and had there seated them- selves on a tombstone , while the old woman pointed out the grave of ...
... told ) , the nurse and the children had strolled through the pleasure - grounds into the churchyard , which is just without the enclosure , and had there seated them- selves on a tombstone , while the old woman pointed out the grave of ...
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... told me , that all the while he was talking to my boy , she had been listening , and , as she expressed it , gath- ered up many things which had been lost to the child , as being beyond the grasp of his understanding ; and these things ...
... told me , that all the while he was talking to my boy , she had been listening , and , as she expressed it , gath- ered up many things which had been lost to the child , as being beyond the grasp of his understanding ; and these things ...
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... told my ever - dear pa- ternal friend that I was only sorry that his presence had prevented me from applying a horsewhip to the little prig in black who had taken such liberties with his character . " Why , " said my uncle , " what very ...
... told my ever - dear pa- ternal friend that I was only sorry that his presence had prevented me from applying a horsewhip to the little prig in black who had taken such liberties with his character . " Why , " said my uncle , " what very ...
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... told me pleas- antly where she was going , namely , to the very village where our home was situated . I had some curiosity to know more of this young lady , and therefore put sev- eral questions to her without letting her , in the least ...
... told me pleas- antly where she was going , namely , to the very village where our home was situated . I had some curiosity to know more of this young lady , and therefore put sev- eral questions to her without letting her , in the least ...
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Page 149 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 322 - What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Page 364 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 327 - The waters wear the stones : thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Page 173 - JESUS, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress ; 'Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head.
Page 315 - Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Page 404 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 292 - ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend ; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end.
Page 325 - Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.