The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, Volume 13, Issues 73-84John and Charles Mozley, 1857 |
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... Aunt Dorothea say , that when she and her sisters were staying at Castle Warren , the Miss Winshaws , my grandmother's sisters , would borrow all the spare money they had ; but Aunt Dorothea soon became too wise to lend , and Aunt ...
... Aunt Dorothea say , that when she and her sisters were staying at Castle Warren , the Miss Winshaws , my grandmother's sisters , would borrow all the spare money they had ; but Aunt Dorothea soon became too wise to lend , and Aunt ...
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... Aunt Phoebe , who was always ill , and who Aunt Prissie nursed day and night with a tyrannical tenderness which left her victim no will of her own , and disdained all assistance . Indeed the comfort of Aunt Phoebe was the object of her ...
... Aunt Phoebe , who was always ill , and who Aunt Prissie nursed day and night with a tyrannical tenderness which left her victim no will of her own , and disdained all assistance . Indeed the comfort of Aunt Phoebe was the object of her ...
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... Aunt Phoebe endured it all was quite wonderful , and give it as his opinion that she would have been well and like other people if Aunt Prissie would but have let her alone . What he said to Aunt Dorothea's advice on the subject of ...
... Aunt Phoebe endured it all was quite wonderful , and give it as his opinion that she would have been well and like other people if Aunt Prissie would but have let her alone . What he said to Aunt Dorothea's advice on the subject of ...
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... Aunt Dorothea's outraged feelings . She really over- whelmed him with reproaches , and sinking down on a bench , burst into tears of such genuine distress as made him hastily declare that he and my mother had no thought of being married ...
... Aunt Dorothea's outraged feelings . She really over- whelmed him with reproaches , and sinking down on a bench , burst into tears of such genuine distress as made him hastily declare that he and my mother had no thought of being married ...
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... Aunt Phoebe , who was of a quite different mould from her sisters , spoke to him kindly , and one day when she was ... Aunt Dorothea sorrowed as if she had been grieving over an unḍutiful son , and was cut to the heart ; she went moping ...
... Aunt Phoebe , who was of a quite different mould from her sisters , spoke to him kindly , and one day when she was ... Aunt Dorothea sorrowed as if she had been grieving over an unḍutiful son , and was cut to the heart ; she went moping ...
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Page 248 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible ; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of GOD of great price.
Page 535 - Wherever in the world I am, In whatsoe'er estate, I have a fellowship with hearts, To keep and cultivate ; And a work of lowly love to do For the Lord on whom I wait.
Page 27 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 16 - Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress : even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.
Page 347 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Page 545 - MS Here lyeth buried so much as could dye of ANXE, the wife of IZAAK WALTON; Who was a Woman of remarkable prudence, and of the Primitive Piety ; her great, and general, Knowledge being adorned with such true Humility, and blest with so much Christian Meekness as made her worthy of a more memorable monument. She dyed (alas that she is dead !) the 17th of April, 1662, Aged 52. Study to be like her.
Page 27 - Lord, I am not high-minded : I have no proud looks. 2 I do not exercise myself in great matters : which are too high for me. 3 But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child that is weaned from his mother : yea, my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 11 - He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Page 29 - Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat ; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat : for the Lord hath spoken it. 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house : and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
Page 131 - The warriors of the sacred grave, Who looked to Christ for laws, And perished for the faith they gave Their comrades and the cause ; They perished, in one fate alike, The veteran and the boy, Where'er the regal arm could strike, To torture and destroy : While darkly down the stream of time, Devised by evil fame, Float murmurs of mysterious crime, And tales of secret shame. How oft, when avarice, hate, or pride, Assault some noble band, The outer world, that scorns the side It does not understand,...