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... offer , and in a few mo- ments the old cradle was standing by the open window , ready for its new tenant . With a trembling hand Mrs. Totts arranged the bed - clothes in it , adding from a drawer long disused such articles as might ...
... offer , and in a few mo- ments the old cradle was standing by the open window , ready for its new tenant . With a trembling hand Mrs. Totts arranged the bed - clothes in it , adding from a drawer long disused such articles as might ...
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... offer advice unsolicited , and to contrast openly what she saw in other people's houses with what her own experience had made her believe to be a better way . To none was she so unacceptable as to John Totts and his wife ; not only ...
... offer advice unsolicited , and to contrast openly what she saw in other people's houses with what her own experience had made her believe to be a better way . To none was she so unacceptable as to John Totts and his wife ; not only ...
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... offered a prize of five guineas for the best work of art executed by any one under twenty - one years of age who should be living at the present time in the county in which the ... offer , for at once his thoughts went 54 THE ART PRIZE .
... offered a prize of five guineas for the best work of art executed by any one under twenty - one years of age who should be living at the present time in the county in which the ... offer , for at once his thoughts went 54 THE ART PRIZE .
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Theodore Percival Wilson. Should this offer , for at once his thoughts went to the birth- day piece executed for him by Sarah , and which had as yet been shown to none of his visitors . he allow it to be sent in by Sarah as a competitor ...
Theodore Percival Wilson. Should this offer , for at once his thoughts went to the birth- day piece executed for him by Sarah , and which had as yet been shown to none of his visitors . he allow it to be sent in by Sarah as a competitor ...
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... able to paint a white lion or a green dragon for a public- house sign - board , that wouldn't get them a bread . Much better offer a prize to the boy who can make the best bench , and to the girl who can 56 THE ART PRIZE .
... able to paint a white lion or a green dragon for a public- house sign - board , that wouldn't get them a bread . Much better offer a prize to the boy who can make the best bench , and to the girl who can 56 THE ART PRIZE .
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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.