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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... continued . ) ROYAL ROSE - BUDS . A HISTORICAL SKETCH . CHAPTER I. ABIJAH , THE SON OF JEROBOAM , B. c . 970 . " Tis better to be lowly born , And range with humble livers in content , Than to be perked up in a glistering grief And wear ...
... continued . ) ROYAL ROSE - BUDS . A HISTORICAL SKETCH . CHAPTER I. ABIJAH , THE SON OF JEROBOAM , B. c . 970 . " Tis better to be lowly born , And range with humble livers in content , Than to be perked up in a glistering grief And wear ...
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... continued . ) F. M. W. THE YOUNG STEP - MOTHER . CHAPTER VII . THERE are some characters so constituted , that the old proverb , that Love is blind , is perfectly true in their case ; and they can see no imperfection in either the mind ...
... continued . ) F. M. W. THE YOUNG STEP - MOTHER . CHAPTER VII . THERE are some characters so constituted , that the old proverb , that Love is blind , is perfectly true in their case ; and they can see no imperfection in either the mind ...
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... continued . ) MY THREE AUNTS ; OR , LOWMINSTER . CHAPTER I. As my story is to be but a short one , I will not trouble myself or the reader with any preface , but simply state that my name was Harriet Harlow , and that my father was the ...
... continued . ) MY THREE AUNTS ; OR , LOWMINSTER . CHAPTER I. As my story is to be but a short one , I will not trouble myself or the reader with any preface , but simply state that my name was Harriet Harlow , and that my father was the ...
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... continued . ) THE LITTLE RED HOUSE . CHAPTER I. ' The house shows its owner .'- George Herbert . Don't you like a village green , reader ? Of all the old- fashioned things which are now fast disappearing , there is none which I shall ...
... continued . ) THE LITTLE RED HOUSE . CHAPTER I. ' The house shows its owner .'- George Herbert . Don't you like a village green , reader ? Of all the old- fashioned things which are now fast disappearing , there is none which I shall ...
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... poor , as it is , without butter , for a fever in France , but I presume these last remedies are unsanctioned by medical authority . ( To be continued . ) ETCHINGS ABROAD IN PEN AND INK . No. VL - 104 THE MONTHLY PACKET .
... poor , as it is , without butter , for a fever in France , but I presume these last remedies are unsanctioned by medical authority . ( To be continued . ) ETCHINGS ABROAD IN PEN AND INK . No. VL - 104 THE MONTHLY PACKET .
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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,...