Diary of mrs. Kitty Trevylyan, by the author of 'Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta family'. |
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Page vii
... seemed like God's gracious hands once more invest- ing him with his forfeited possessions - no more as earthly dross , but as priceless heavenly treasure . " There is a very fine specimen of word - painting INTRODUCTION . vii.
... seemed like God's gracious hands once more invest- ing him with his forfeited possessions - no more as earthly dross , but as priceless heavenly treasure . " There is a very fine specimen of word - painting INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... seemed to spread over the house like fine weather . And in that little closet there is no furniture but the old rocking - chair in which Mother used to rock us children to sleep , and a table covered with a white cloth , with four books ...
... seemed to spread over the house like fine weather . And in that little closet there is no furniture but the old rocking - chair in which Mother used to rock us children to sleep , and a table covered with a white cloth , with four books ...
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... seemed against me , and I could not help crying with vexation , -those blots which Mother used to call " Fairy Fainéante's footsteps ( for Mother's grandmother was a Huguenot French Lady , driven from France by the cruel revocation of ...
... seemed against me , and I could not help crying with vexation , -those blots which Mother used to call " Fairy Fainéante's footsteps ( for Mother's grandmother was a Huguenot French Lady , driven from France by the cruel revocation of ...
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... seemed changed with them . Beneath me , on the white sands in the cove , lay the wreck of the fishing - smack that was lost there last winter . Those sunny waves now fawning so softly on the shore had not yet washed away the traces of ...
... seemed changed with them . Beneath me , on the white sands in the cove , lay the wreck of the fishing - smack that was lost there last winter . Those sunny waves now fawning so softly on the shore had not yet washed away the traces of ...
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... seemed to be ! Thus , instead of the creation seeming the ladder of light on which just before my spirit had been ris- ing to heaven , from love to joy , and joy to love , it seemed to have become a winding stair - case into the abyss ...
... seemed to be ! Thus , instead of the creation seeming the ladder of light on which just before my spirit had been ris- ing to heaven , from love to joy , and joy to love , it seemed to have become a winding stair - case into the abyss ...
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Abbot Almighty Arminian asked Aunt Beauchamp Aunt Henderson Aunt Jeanie believe better Betty Betty's Bible blessed brother Conrad called calm Charles Wesley's child Christ church comfort Cotta Family Cousin Evelyn Cousin Kitty dear door earth eyes face Falmouth Father feel felt folks forgive give God's hand hear heard heart heaven holy hope Hugh Spencer hymns Jack Jack's Jesus John Nelson John Wesley kind Lady listen living look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Master Hugh Methodists Missis morning Mother never night once perhaps Pharisees poor pray prayer preach Psalm quiet replied Saviour scarcely seemed sermon singing sins smile sorrow soul speak spoke strange Sunday sure tears tell tender thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought to-day Toby told Trevylyan trust truth Uncle Henderson voice Wesley's Whitefield wonder words
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Page 37 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Page 61 - Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Page 338 - Thou art a day of mirth ; And where the week-days trail on ground, Thy flight is higher, as thy birth : O let me take thee at the bound, Leaping with thee from seven to seven, Till that we both, being tossed from earth, Fly hand in hand to heaven ! AVARICE.
Page 196 - And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 97 - Jesus took once a little child and set him in the midst of the people, and said, "except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven...
Page ix - GRANT, we beseech Thee, merciful Lord, to Thy faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve Thee with a quiet mind ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 237 - Yield to me now, for I am weak, But confident in self-despair; Speak to my heart, in blessings speak, Be conquered by my instant prayer; Speak, or thou never hence shalt move, And tell me if thy name is Love.
Page 237 - tis Love! Thou diedst for me! I hear Thy whisper in my heart! The morning breaks, the shadows flee; Pure universal Love Thou art ! To me, to all, Thy bowels move; Thy nature, and Thy name, is Love!
Page 56 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 339 - MY joy, my life, my crown ! My heart was meaning all the day, Somewhat it fain would say : And still it runneth muttering up and down With only this, My joy, my life, my crown ! Yet slight not these few words ; If truly said, they may take part Among the best in art.