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... followed by Bathsheba Stoker , daughter of Rev. Joseph Bel- lamy Stoker . She was the friend of Myrtle , and had come to comfort Miss Silence , and consult with her as to what further search they should institute . The two , Myrtle's ...
... followed by Bathsheba Stoker , daughter of Rev. Joseph Bel- lamy Stoker . She was the friend of Myrtle , and had come to comfort Miss Silence , and consult with her as to what further search they should institute . The two , Myrtle's ...
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... followed in due order ac- cording to Nature's kindly programme . --- This - Captain Charles Hazard , of the ship Orient Pearl , fell desperately in love with their daughter Candace , married her , and carried her with him to India ...
... followed in due order ac- cording to Nature's kindly programme . --- This - Captain Charles Hazard , of the ship Orient Pearl , fell desperately in love with their daughter Candace , married her , and carried her with him to India ...
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... followed the child to school , where she learned the com- mon branches of knowledge . It fol- lowed her to the Sabbath - day catechis- ings , where she repeated the answers about the federal headship of Adam , and her consequent ...
... followed the child to school , where she learned the com- mon branches of knowledge . It fol- lowed her to the Sabbath - day catechis- ings , where she repeated the answers about the federal headship of Adam , and her consequent ...
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... followed the few words that were said , but silently , swiftly , a room was made ready , while the men lifted from the straw and carried up stairs an unconscious figure , the arms of which hung down with a horrible significance as they ...
... followed the few words that were said , but silently , swiftly , a room was made ready , while the men lifted from the straw and carried up stairs an unconscious figure , the arms of which hung down with a horrible significance as they ...
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... stairs . Mrs. Cumberland followed me stealth- ily out of the house , and , with many " nods , becks , and wreathed winks , " allured me into the yard . She took IF Paul was " a pickle , " -a charge 76 [ January , Katharine Morne .
... stairs . Mrs. Cumberland followed me stealth- ily out of the house , and , with many " nods , becks , and wreathed winks , " allured me into the yard . She took IF Paul was " a pickle , " -a charge 76 [ January , Katharine Morne .
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Page 445 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 594 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O Sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 635 - A valuable contribution to the evidences of revelation, and disposes very conclusively of the arguments of those who would set God's Works against God's Word. No real difficulty is shirked, and no sophistry is left unexposed.
Page 596 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it : cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field...
Page 188 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 119 - AZgon, rough and merry, A Broadway Daphnis, on his tryst With Nais at the Brooklyn Ferry. A one-eyed Cyclops halted long In tattered cloak of army pattern; And Galatea joined the throng, — A blowsy, apple-vending slattern; While old Silenus staggered out From some new-fangled lunch-house handy, And bade the piper, with a shout. To strike up Yankee Doodle Dandy!
Page 111 - Leave the many and hold the few. Timely wise accept the terms, Soften the fall with wary foot; A little while Still plan and smile, And, fault of novel germs, Mature the unfallen fruit.
Page 261 - Far in the deep where darkness dwells, The land of horror and despair, Justice has built a dismal hell, And laid her stores of vengeance there.
Page 656 - In the old French portion of the town, the thoroughfares are narrow and crooked, and some of the houses are very quaint and picturesque; being built of wood, with tumbledown galleries before the windows, approachable by stairs or rather ladders from the street. There are queer little barbers...
Page 111 - TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.