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... walked up and down his garden , kept cutting off the heads of the tallest poppies with his staff . The messenger , tired with this , went back and told Sextus what had passed . Sextus , understanding what his father meant , began to ...
... walked up and down his garden , kept cutting off the heads of the tallest poppies with his staff . The messenger , tired with this , went back and told Sextus what had passed . Sextus , understanding what his father meant , began to ...
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... walked when I would have been very glad to have a cab ; but , gentlemen , I did all that because I wanted to pay the premium on a life insurance that would keep my family comfortable if I should die . " - Talmage . 180. AMBITION a ...
... walked when I would have been very glad to have a cab ; but , gentlemen , I did all that because I wanted to pay the premium on a life insurance that would keep my family comfortable if I should die . " - Talmage . 180. AMBITION a ...
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... walked no more with them ; while the greater part of those who were wavering , seduced by the concourse of their heathen countrymen , again joined the multitude . One being asked why he could not stay , answered , " I have bought a ...
... walked no more with them ; while the greater part of those who were wavering , seduced by the concourse of their heathen countrymen , again joined the multitude . One being asked why he could not stay , answered , " I have bought a ...
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... walked upstairs . His disciples slipped out one by one , and left the speaker and myself to enjoy the scene . - Christian Age . 509. BIBLE , Asking for . The following is an extract from a petition which was signed by 416 Roman ...
... walked upstairs . His disciples slipped out one by one , and left the speaker and myself to enjoy the scene . - Christian Age . 509. BIBLE , Asking for . The following is an extract from a petition which was signed by 416 Roman ...
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... walked back , and as they neared the gates of the town , they waved the branches to their parents who anxiously awaited them . - Der Glaubensbcte . 812. CHILDREN , Tenderness towards . This tenderness was never CHILDREN CHILDREN ( 86 )
... walked back , and as they neared the gates of the town , they waved the branches to their parents who anxiously awaited them . - Der Glaubensbcte . 812. CHILDREN , Tenderness towards . This tenderness was never CHILDREN CHILDREN ( 86 )
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Page 343 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Page 351 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 349 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and,...
Page 7 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord...
Page 260 - The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way : but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Page 58 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 47 - Not that I speak in respect of want ; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 306 - JUST as I am, without one plea. But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bid'st me come to thee, O Lamb of God ! I come...
Page 70 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 357 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.