The new cyclopædia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1872 |
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... death , I asked , ' Are you left alone , my friend , in ' No , this deplorable situation ? ' sir , ' replied he , in a tone of mild and touching resignation , while nothing but his lips and eyes moved as he spoke ; I am not alone , for ...
... death , I asked , ' Are you left alone , my friend , in ' No , this deplorable situation ? ' sir , ' replied he , in a tone of mild and touching resignation , while nothing but his lips and eyes moved as he spoke ; I am not alone , for ...
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... death , it had illness , when one of his friends clasped its father's hand , and was addressed him thus : " Sir , though holding it with a convulsive grasp . God seems to be bringing you up " You are a father , " said the from the gates ...
... death , it had illness , when one of his friends clasped its father's hand , and was addressed him thus : " Sir , though holding it with a convulsive grasp . God seems to be bringing you up " You are a father , " said the from the gates ...
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... death , in 1274 , " 53. God's Word Precious . - Two Bible , in nine tomes , faire written , men came one night to Mr. Ellis , and excellently well glossed by the missionary of Madagascar . Solomon , Archdeacon of Leicester , They had ...
... death , in 1274 , " 53. God's Word Precious . - Two Bible , in nine tomes , faire written , men came one night to Mr. Ellis , and excellently well glossed by the missionary of Madagascar . Solomon , Archdeacon of Leicester , They had ...
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... . night's rest may be to that poor Think of what importance a good n death ; we shall never want , man . " 80. Glorious Guest . The celebrated John Falk was well received the following letter , 22 THE NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF ANECDOTE .
... . night's rest may be to that poor Think of what importance a good n death ; we shall never want , man . " 80. Glorious Guest . The celebrated John Falk was well received the following letter , 22 THE NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF ANECDOTE .
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... Death . - " I am in the habit , " writes a sea- captain , " of reading the Scriptures to the crew . I have suffered much lately at sea , having been dismasted , and had all my boats washed away , a little to the westward of Cape Clear ...
... Death . - " I am in the habit , " writes a sea- captain , " of reading the Scriptures to the crew . I have suffered much lately at sea , having been dismasted , and had all my boats washed away , a little to the westward of Cape Clear ...
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Page 543 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Page 229 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 363 - I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be also.
Page 18 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 329 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Page 19 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Page 196 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Page 477 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 479 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 488 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee...