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... carry friendships against whose continuance even the last enemy has no power . Character comes forth naturally there , and is there- fore piquant and charming . Heart flows out fear- lessly , and is therefore ardent . A nation so ...
... carry friendships against whose continuance even the last enemy has no power . Character comes forth naturally there , and is there- fore piquant and charming . Heart flows out fear- lessly , and is therefore ardent . A nation so ...
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... carry me back to old Virginia , to old Virginia's shore , " though singing of a place of bondage , yet loves the home of his childhood , and is exercising the same sentiment which swelled the heart of Sir Walter Scott , when , in ...
... carry me back to old Virginia , to old Virginia's shore , " though singing of a place of bondage , yet loves the home of his childhood , and is exercising the same sentiment which swelled the heart of Sir Walter Scott , when , in ...
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... carried to a missionary meeting , came away laughing to see the Yorkshire folks so " humbugged , " for he had been eighteen years in India , and had never heard of , much less seen , a missionary . The man was honest in his statement ...
... carried to a missionary meeting , came away laughing to see the Yorkshire folks so " humbugged , " for he had been eighteen years in India , and had never heard of , much less seen , a missionary . The man was honest in his statement ...
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... carry twelve inside . Children who take seats pay half price ; " upon which information , the small ones scramble on the laps of the ladies who accompany them , and the leading youth adjusts himself to stand at a window , without ...
... carry twelve inside . Children who take seats pay half price ; " upon which information , the small ones scramble on the laps of the ladies who accompany them , and the leading youth adjusts himself to stand at a window , without ...
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... carry about the rooms carefully , and deposit unbroken , at an age when in our country mamma or nurse would be rushing after them to save the vessel from destruction . My surprise has also been excited by the lengths they are permitted ...
... carry about the rooms carefully , and deposit unbroken , at an age when in our country mamma or nurse would be rushing after them to save the vessel from destruction . My surprise has also been excited by the lengths they are permitted ...
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Page 118 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 79 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 147 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 318 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open