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... child , a little girl , having died in infancy . John Totts had a hobby , as all the country round knew . This hobby was the making of a collection of things curious and ancient , especially old books , old wood - carving , and old ...
... child , a little girl , having died in infancy . John Totts had a hobby , as all the country round knew . This hobby was the making of a collection of things curious and ancient , especially old books , old wood - carving , and old ...
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... child's picture - book and send to him the coloured caricature of an old virtuoso with the following verses printed under- neath " Cousin Ralph , the connoisseur , Lived at Florence to be sure : He loved things as old as Moses ...
... child's picture - book and send to him the coloured caricature of an old virtuoso with the following verses printed under- neath " Cousin Ralph , the connoisseur , Lived at Florence to be sure : He loved things as old as Moses ...
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... child's cries and struggles made them forget everything else for a time , except the little creature and its distress . John Totts had soon cut the fast- enings of the lid , and his wife having tenderly re- moved a flannel coverlet of ...
... child's cries and struggles made them forget everything else for a time , except the little creature and its distress . John Totts had soon cut the fast- enings of the lid , and his wife having tenderly re- moved a flannel coverlet of ...
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... child , basket and all , to the Union , and leave it there , and so relieve themselves ; or they could advertise in the papers , inviting the proper guardians of the infant , whether parents or others , to come and take it off their ...
... child , basket and all , to the Union , and leave it there , and so relieve themselves ; or they could advertise in the papers , inviting the proper guardians of the infant , whether parents or others , to come and take it off their ...
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... child . It might be that the mother was herself putting away her babe , and handing over the care of it to another , for some mysterious reason . Or it might be that the poor innocent little thing had been stolen away from its parents ...
... child . It might be that the mother was herself putting away her babe , and handing over the care of it to another , for some mysterious reason . Or it might be that the poor innocent little thing had been stolen away from its parents ...
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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.