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... heart . " Yes , yes , thought Douglass , every thing begins with the heart- but it ends in " lands , tenements , and hereditaments . " Mr. Douglass adjusts his spectacles and reads on- " My. 1 * CHAPTER PAGE I Mr Douglass finds a ...
... heart . " Yes , yes , thought Douglass , every thing begins with the heart- but it ends in " lands , tenements , and hereditaments . " Mr. Douglass adjusts his spectacles and reads on- " My. 1 * CHAPTER PAGE I Mr Douglass finds a ...
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... heart , like too many human hearts , has one big joy in it- and like too many more human hearts , it has one big sorrow in it . Were it not for the sorrow , I might be too happy . Every day I see something new and delightful in this pre ...
... heart , like too many human hearts , has one big joy in it- and like too many more human hearts , it has one big sorrow in it . Were it not for the sorrow , I might be too happy . Every day I see something new and delightful in this pre ...
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... heart -only a stereotyped plate with which every look , tone , and word of a shallow heart is issued . She would look at you up and down , and then across , measuring with sharp eye your latitude and longitude , wondering about the ...
... heart -only a stereotyped plate with which every look , tone , and word of a shallow heart is issued . She would look at you up and down , and then across , measuring with sharp eye your latitude and longitude , wondering about the ...
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... heart was heavy ; she went about sing- ing with a trembling , mournful voice , stopping every now and then , to wipe away a tear that would come : " When I can read my title clear , To mansions in the skies ; I'll bid farewell to every ...
... heart was heavy ; she went about sing- ing with a trembling , mournful voice , stopping every now and then , to wipe away a tear that would come : " When I can read my title clear , To mansions in the skies ; I'll bid farewell to every ...
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... heart was breaking . " The examination proved the correctness of her feelings . The tremendous propulsion of the blood , consequent upon some violent nervous shock forced the powerful muscular tissues asunder , and life was at an end ...
... heart was breaking . " The examination proved the correctness of her feelings . The tremendous propulsion of the blood , consequent upon some violent nervous shock forced the powerful muscular tissues asunder , and life was at an end ...
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Page 158 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 261 - Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind, Sight, riches, healing of the mind, Yea, all I need, in Thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come ! 5 Just as I am, Thou wilt receive, Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve.
Page 275 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volleyed and thundered...
Page 252 - In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, Over the brink of it, — Picture it, think of it, Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!
Page 3 - We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Page 256 - The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tears ; And weary hours of woe and pain '. Are promises of happier years.
Page 261 - Just as I am (Thy love unknown Has broken every barrier down), Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone, O Lamb of God, I come...
Page 307 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.
Page 260 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page 270 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.