The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Miss Elizabeth Tatton : to which are Added Some Instances of Divine Grace in the ArmyJ. Nisbet, 1861 - 103 pages |
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... young female , claiming no higher rank in the service than an " Officer's Daughter , " and disappearing from the scenes and associations of earth with scarcely eighteen summers ' radiance upon her head . And yet , retiring as was her ...
... young female , claiming no higher rank in the service than an " Officer's Daughter , " and disappearing from the scenes and associations of earth with scarcely eighteen summers ' radiance upon her head . And yet , retiring as was her ...
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... young officers in the army , has sug- gested its republication in a new and enlarged form . The interest of the volume is much enhanced by the appendage to the present edition of a brief sketch of LIEUTENANT - COLONEL TATTON , the ...
... young officers in the army , has sug- gested its republication in a new and enlarged form . The interest of the volume is much enhanced by the appendage to the present edition of a brief sketch of LIEUTENANT - COLONEL TATTON , the ...
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... young and unprotected , the woman , with the promise of supplying her bountifully with oranges , seized upon the unsuspecting little creature , and folding her beneath her cloak , bore her quickly away . Elizabeth was soon missed from ...
... young and unprotected , the woman , with the promise of supplying her bountifully with oranges , seized upon the unsuspecting little creature , and folding her beneath her cloak , bore her quickly away . Elizabeth was soon missed from ...
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... young heart . But as early as four years of age the " tender grape began to appear , and the pomegranate to bud , " in the soul of this intelli- gent and engaging child . Her reading , of which she was remarkably fond , was wholly ...
... young heart . But as early as four years of age the " tender grape began to appear , and the pomegranate to bud , " in the soul of this intelli- gent and engaging child . Her reading , of which she was remarkably fond , was wholly ...
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... young heart , giving her to know something of its hidden plague , and dissolving it in godly penitence , who can doubt ? It was remarkable how all her thoughts and acquisi- tions at this early and almost infantine period , were ...
... young heart , giving her to know something of its hidden plague , and dissolving it in godly penitence , who can doubt ? It was remarkable how all her thoughts and acquisi- tions at this early and almost infantine period , were ...
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Page 102 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 97 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 87 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 51 - How long is it ago since this came unto him? and he said, Of a child. And oft-times it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him; but if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.
Page 100 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season : esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Page 90 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 90 - But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets ; Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe...
Page 70 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Page 100 - For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood, suffered without the gate.