Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church (earlier "for Younger Members of the English Church"), Volume 7J. and C. Mozley, 1869 |
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... eyes in dust , He will upraise thee for His own great Name , His penance garb will make and show thee just . ' For fullness of doctrine implied in the fewest possible words , this last line seems to us unequalled . ( To be continued ...
... eyes in dust , He will upraise thee for His own great Name , His penance garb will make and show thee just . ' For fullness of doctrine implied in the fewest possible words , this last line seems to us unequalled . ( To be continued ...
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... eyes opened a very little way and a shiver passed through the limbs . By this time the children had gone home , marshalled away in good order by the eldest scholar , so there was no one to hear Mrs. Lester's sob of joy as those black eyes ...
... eyes opened a very little way and a shiver passed through the limbs . By this time the children had gone home , marshalled away in good order by the eldest scholar , so there was no one to hear Mrs. Lester's sob of joy as those black eyes ...
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... eyes and mouths grew very round with surprise as they watched her where she sat on the mistress's knee ; her face was so small and brown and odd , her eyes were so large and dark , her little brown hands were so thin . She was not like ...
... eyes and mouths grew very round with surprise as they watched her where she sat on the mistress's knee ; her face was so small and brown and odd , her eyes were so large and dark , her little brown hands were so thin . She was not like ...
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... eyes when they peep from beneath their shaggy eyebrows . When Mrs. Lester brought the child to this dreary place , because no one had owned the poor little thing , she almost cried to think of leaving her there . Yet there was no help ...
... eyes when they peep from beneath their shaggy eyebrows . When Mrs. Lester brought the child to this dreary place , because no one had owned the poor little thing , she almost cried to think of leaving her there . Yet there was no help ...
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... eyes kindled already with the fire of success : there were others pale with suppressed emotion , and glancing warily around them ; others again who said little , listening with apparent apathy , but whose ears were wide open , drinking ...
... eyes kindled already with the fire of success : there were others pale with suppressed emotion , and glancing warily around them ; others again who said little , listening with apparent apathy , but whose ears were wide open , drinking ...
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Page 303 - Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Page 287 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives ; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 259 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 405 - And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots ; and the lot fell upon Matthias ; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Page 227 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 287 - 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 424 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 359 - Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death, where is thy sting ? 0 grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 383 - Well I know thy trouble, 0 My servant true ; Thou art very weary, 1 was weary too ; But that toil shall make thee Some day all Mine own, And the end of sorrow Shall be near My throne.
Page 230 - My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college; yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.