The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volume 3Robert Kemp Philp |
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... Philip , destined for the Church , -Helen , destined to be a beauty , and to make a great connection in marriage , -Catharine , destined to be learned and clever , because she did not appear very likely to be beautiful . It must be ...
... Philip , destined for the Church , -Helen , destined to be a beauty , and to make a great connection in marriage , -Catharine , destined to be learned and clever , because she did not appear very likely to be beautiful . It must be ...
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... Philip ; " he is frightened at a duck - pond . Let me go to sea , -I won't preach ! " And he shouted this indignant protesta- tion with the voice of an infant Hercules , much to the horror of his mother , who considered the expression ...
... Philip ; " he is frightened at a duck - pond . Let me go to sea , -I won't preach ! " And he shouted this indignant protesta- tion with the voice of an infant Hercules , much to the horror of his mother , who considered the expression ...
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... Philip rocked violently the little boat in which they paddled to and fro in a pond at the farm , where they had been sent for the benefit of Seymour's health , -- he was a coward when Philip played tricks with the tail of the pony , on ...
... Philip rocked violently the little boat in which they paddled to and fro in a pond at the farm , where they had been sent for the benefit of Seymour's health , -- he was a coward when Philip played tricks with the tail of the pony , on ...
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... Philip , though all enjoyed it as children will , even where the means of enjoyment look rather poor and scanty to their older companions . All the Clif- tons , however , enjoyed this change , according to their different tastes . Ro ...
... Philip , though all enjoyed it as children will , even where the means of enjoyment look rather poor and scanty to their older companions . All the Clif- tons , however , enjoyed this change , according to their different tastes . Ro ...
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... Philip , but he could not be sure . He entered , however , with very little discomposure , for that evening more than usual , his thoughts were in unison with the purpose for which the few hardworking humble people who summoned him ...
... Philip , but he could not be sure . He entered , however , with very little discomposure , for that evening more than usual , his thoughts were in unison with the purpose for which the few hardworking humble people who summoned him ...
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Ahaziah Amphibalus appear apricot Athaliah beautiful Ben-hadad better blue boiling bottle BRODERIE ANGLAISE brother burn called chemisette child chlorate of potash chlorine Clifton cold colour crimson crochet dear dress eyes face FATHER feel feet felt fire flame flowers friends girl give glass gold green Gregory Guimbarde hair half hand happy Hazael head heart heat hole iodine isinglass Ivan Jehoiada Jehosheba Jehu kind Kitty lady leaves light live look mamma manner means meat mind mother Naboth nature never night once oxygen Philip phosphorus piece pilot poor reign reindeer Robert round scarcely scarlet seemed Seymour Seymy silk sister soft sometimes soon Spitzbergen stitch sure sweet tell thee things thou thought tion tube turned walk warm white pony words young
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Page 58 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 143 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 105 - The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope ; Blessings are plentiful and rife — More plentiful than hope.
Page 357 - Not there, not there, my child! "Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy ; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair — Sorrow and death may not enter there : Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, — It is there, it is there, my child!
Page 262 - We also wrote our lovers' names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put them into water, and the first that rose up was to be our Valentine. Would you think it?— Mr. Blossom was my man. I lay a-bed and shut my eyes all the morning till he came to our house ; for I would not have seen another man before him for all the world.
Page 70 - The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 381 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — • We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 2 - If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies ; And they are fools who roam : The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
Page 357 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Page 237 - Observe the rising lily's snowy grace, Observe the various vegetable race ; They neither toil, nor spin, but careless grow ; Yet see how warm they blush, how bright they glow. What regal vestments can with them compare, What king so shining, or what queen so fair...