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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... rest and comfort ; as entirely as the death of his son took from him hope and companionship . What a home it must have been , with Lucy reigning over it in her pert self - sufficiency , Gilbert and Sophy running riot and squabbling ...
... rest and comfort ; as entirely as the death of his son took from him hope and companionship . What a home it must have been , with Lucy reigning over it in her pert self - sufficiency , Gilbert and Sophy running riot and squabbling ...
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... rest . 8. I do not think I need look after anybody now , they will go their own way , and Ellen is proud to do the cards . I wrote all the directions yesterday ; it is only slipping them in . E. I long to see you quiet , for you must be ...
... rest . 8. I do not think I need look after anybody now , they will go their own way , and Ellen is proud to do the cards . I wrote all the directions yesterday ; it is only slipping them in . E. I long to see you quiet , for you must be ...
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... rest of us , or as if the summit of all one's desires were to have a great flat , stiff park , with a lake in it , and drive into a Grecian portico . I longed to say sometimes , ' How do you know I should marry that kind of man if he ...
... rest of us , or as if the summit of all one's desires were to have a great flat , stiff park , with a lake in it , and drive into a Grecian portico . I longed to say sometimes , ' How do you know I should marry that kind of man if he ...
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... rest , so I welcome it , and the places will bring back many pleasant recollections . I am sure we had reason to speak of them gratefully . S. After all , it is a good thing that you are free just now . I have often wondered that you ...
... rest , so I welcome it , and the places will bring back many pleasant recollections . I am sure we had reason to speak of them gratefully . S. After all , it is a good thing that you are free just now . I have often wondered that you ...
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... unsuited to them , light - minded people with smart dress and off - hand manners , who look on a good work as a sort of compensation to the rest of their life ? • S. To be sure , very fast people ; 84 THE MONTHLY PACKET .
... unsuited to them , light - minded people with smart dress and off - hand manners , who look on a good work as a sort of compensation to the rest of their life ? • S. To be sure , very fast people ; 84 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,...