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affections apoplexy aunt bailiff beauty better bless brother Burke Burleigh caitiff CHAPTER Charles Charles Tracy Charles's child comfort creature crime crock of gold dare daughter dear death dread Emily Warren Emmy eyes fancied father fear feelings fellow friends gentle girl give Grace hand happy hear heard heart heaven Henry Clements honest honor hope Hurstley innocent Jane Mackenzie Jeanie Mackie John Dillaway Julian kind kindly knew Lady Dillaway live looked Lord Mammon Maria MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER matter mind morning mother murder never night nurse once Oxton Pike Island Plymouth Sound poor pretty Quarles Quarles's rich Roger Acton round seemed Simon Jennings Sir John Sir Thomas soon soul spirit stood strange sweet Tamworth tell thank thee things thou thought Tracy truth wealth wicked wife William Elphinston wise wish woman word wretched
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Page 98 - Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 43 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 8 - Israel, trust in the LORD ; for with the LORD there is mercy : and with Him is plenteous redemption. And He shall redeem Israel : from all his sins.
Page 2 - How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys.
Page 8 - OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD : Lord, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well : the voice of my complaint. If thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O Lord, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee : therefore shalt thou be feared.
Page 56 - For love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man, when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries ; Fear he answers blow to blow ; future...
Page 37 - Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts.
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