The new cyclopædia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1872 |
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... Officer . John Wesley once , when travel- ling , had for fellow - passenger in a coach an officer who was intelli- gent and very agreeable in con- versation ; but there was one very serious drawback - his profanity . When they changed ...
... Officer . John Wesley once , when travel- ling , had for fellow - passenger in a coach an officer who was intelli- gent and very agreeable in con- versation ; but there was one very serious drawback - his profanity . When they changed ...
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... officer , a prisoner upon his parole at Reading during the great war , met with a Bible : he read it , and was so impressed with its contents that he was convinced of the folly of sceptical principles and of the truth of Christianity ...
... officer , a prisoner upon his parole at Reading during the great war , met with a Bible : he read it , and was so impressed with its contents that he was convinced of the folly of sceptical principles and of the truth of Christianity ...
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... officer with sieur , can you give me nothing for whom I was , had the presumption my friends ? " ( thus he called the to exclaim , Mons . Le Pelletier is poor ) . " Not to - day , sir . " Mons . but a poltroon , and had I been there Le ...
... officer with sieur , can you give me nothing for whom I was , had the presumption my friends ? " ( thus he called the to exclaim , Mons . Le Pelletier is poor ) . " Not to - day , sir . " Mons . but a poltroon , and had I been there Le ...
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... officer in the army , on his way to join his regiment in Sicily ; that some time ago he had shot a brother officer in a duel , and ever since he had been disturbed in his aro rest , appearing downcast and sad even when perfectly awake ...
... officer in the army , on his way to join his regiment in Sicily ; that some time ago he had shot a brother officer in a duel , and ever since he had been disturbed in his aro rest , appearing downcast and sad even when perfectly awake ...
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... officer died , and the colonel waited successful in training his men , and upon his Majesty to inform him of whose whole deportment pleased the vacancy , and to remind him of the great Frederick of Prussia , was his intention to raise ...
... officer died , and the colonel waited successful in training his men , and upon his Majesty to inform him of whose whole deportment pleased the vacancy , and to remind him of the great Frederick of Prussia , was his intention to raise ...
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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...