The new cyclopędia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1872 |
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... morning longer than he approved , others being busy in foddering their cattle when he was coming to church , and several having fre- quented the alehouse , he thus catechised one of the children before the congregation : - " Repeat me ...
... morning longer than he approved , others being busy in foddering their cattle when he was coming to church , and several having fre- quented the alehouse , he thus catechised one of the children before the congregation : - " Repeat me ...
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... morning distribute these papers at his door . Twenty years afterwards he received a communication from a missionary at Allahabad , who informed him that a person in ill health had arrived there , and that he had been to visit him . He ...
... morning distribute these papers at his door . Twenty years afterwards he received a communication from a missionary at Allahabad , who informed him that a person in ill health had arrived there , and that he had been to visit him . He ...
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... morning a person knocked at his Grace's gate , and with peculiar earnestness desired to see him . The Bishop ordered the stranger to be brought in ; he entered the room where his lord- ship was , and had scarce advanced a few steps ...
... morning a person knocked at his Grace's gate , and with peculiar earnestness desired to see him . The Bishop ordered the stranger to be brought in ; he entered the room where his lord- ship was , and had scarce advanced a few steps ...
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... morning . ” the bounds of prudence ; but she meekly replied , " Let us give always , and even borrow , while it is necessary , to save the poor oblige me , sir , by calling directly . night's rest may be to that poor Think of what ...
... morning . ” the bounds of prudence ; but she meekly replied , " Let us give always , and even borrow , while it is necessary , to save the poor oblige me , sir , by calling directly . night's rest may be to that poor Think of what ...
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... morning on her ladyship , she in- voice of some one preaching , I did quired if they had heard Mr. White- what I never had been in the habit field on the previous evening , and of doing - I went in ; and one of the how they liked him ...
... morning on her ladyship , she in- voice of some one preaching , I did quired if they had heard Mr. White- what I never had been in the habit field on the previous evening , and of doing - I went in ; and one of the how they liked him ...
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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...