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Page 43
... once from oppressing and contracting his chest by leaning forward , and from the lateral curvature which so frequently is the result of attitudes chosen to relieve the weariness of a long unsupported seat . There is much ingenuity and ...
... once from oppressing and contracting his chest by leaning forward , and from the lateral curvature which so frequently is the result of attitudes chosen to relieve the weariness of a long unsupported seat . There is much ingenuity and ...
Page 61
... once more over the seats . The good man recites twice or thrice the words of a single verse , and he and his associates raise a lively tune . We have all heard what it is that music has charms to soothe . It is wonderful , that power ...
... once more over the seats . The good man recites twice or thrice the words of a single verse , and he and his associates raise a lively tune . We have all heard what it is that music has charms to soothe . It is wonderful , that power ...
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... once a respectable bookseller in England . His last employment in New York had been the sale of stationery from door to door . was trusted with a dollar , laid it out in stationery , and returned at night , gladly to deposit his ...
... once a respectable bookseller in England . His last employment in New York had been the sale of stationery from door to door . was trusted with a dollar , laid it out in stationery , and returned at night , gladly to deposit his ...
Page 79
... once pastor of that flock , and of his wife . She was shot , with her babe in her arms , through the window of her own house , by ravening soldiers in search of plunder . He encountered a similar fate more than a year after , when ...
... once pastor of that flock , and of his wife . She was shot , with her babe in her arms , through the window of her own house , by ravening soldiers in search of plunder . He encountered a similar fate more than a year after , when ...
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... once occupied by a portrait of George II . , which was hit by a cannon ball in the hall where it hung - Princeton , with its lecture - rooms , and libraries , and , above all , with its row of mo- numents , over the tombs of departed ...
... once occupied by a portrait of George II . , which was hit by a cannon ball in the hall where it hung - Princeton , with its lecture - rooms , and libraries , and , above all , with its row of mo- numents , over the tombs of departed ...
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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