Great Heights Gained by Steady Efforts, Or, Perseverance and Faithfulness Triumphant |
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... believe to be a better way . To none was she so unacceptable as to John Totts and his wife ; not only because she was always finding something in the carver's rather eccentric premises about which she would suggest alteration or ...
... believe to be a better way . To none was she so unacceptable as to John Totts and his wife ; not only because she was always finding something in the carver's rather eccentric premises about which she would suggest alteration or ...
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... believe he'll turn out better than he looks , after a bit . Why , remember , John , that queer , tough old log , which sailor Ben brought you from foreign parts . Ah ! you broke or blunted a score of tools on it at first , and were in ...
... believe he'll turn out better than he looks , after a bit . Why , remember , John , that queer , tough old log , which sailor Ben brought you from foreign parts . Ah ! you broke or blunted a score of tools on it at first , and were in ...
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... believe that . " " All right , my boy , " cried the other ; " I'm not making fun of you , and I don't believe that you're a fool . But tell me now , if they didn't jump up to the top , how did they get up there ? " 66 Why , master ...
... believe that . " " All right , my boy , " cried the other ; " I'm not making fun of you , and I don't believe that you're a fool . But tell me now , if they didn't jump up to the top , how did they get up there ? " 66 Why , master ...
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... believe this ? Hardly . And yet it might be so . At any rate , the bare possibility was sufficient to aggravate her feelings of jealousy and dislike towards her success- ful rival . And yet she could not venture to say a word to her ...
... believe this ? Hardly . And yet it might be so . At any rate , the bare possibility was sufficient to aggravate her feelings of jealousy and dislike towards her success- ful rival . And yet she could not venture to say a word to her ...
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... believe the carver or any member of his family capable of acting so deceitfully , and yet he felt it to be his duty to have a word with John him- self on the subject . So one morning , or forenoon as John preferred to call it , he ...
... believe the carver or any member of his family capable of acting so deceitfully , and yet he felt it to be his duty to have a word with John him- self on the subject . So one morning , or forenoon as John preferred to call it , he ...
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Page 37 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh, why should heavenly God to men have such regard ?1 This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Page 261 - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Page 250 - that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts...
Page 250 - All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth, to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.
Page 63 - If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he has never used, that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 195 - WHAT'S IN A NAME?" "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet ...
Page 15 - ' Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed ; Heavenly blessings, without number, Gently falling on thy head.
Page 99 - ... very despairing and another moment very sanguine. I cannot help it; I was made so. My father has been away for a few days, and yesterday I got a 'piece' from him on the subject of his consent.
Page 200 - the expulsive power of a new affection ; " that is, that he would try and fall in love with some other girl as soon as possible.
Page 129 - I have felt it to be a privilege as well as a duty to do any little service that lay in my power to such a man.