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Amelia amiable assist aunt beautiful Betty Bible blessed boiling boys brother CHAPTER Charles Hamilton child church clothes cold cousins dangerous Danish dear Denmark door dress earth Edward and Miriam Edward Morton eider duck Eliza entreated eyes farm father felt friends Geysers ground hand happy Harry heard heart heaven Holum horses Iceland Iceland moss Icelandic name island Jonadab kind knew labour lambs little girl lived lonely lonely island look ma'am Madam Meeta mamma Miss Morrison morning Morton moss mountain never night nursery orphan children poor prayed prayer rest Reykiavik riam Richard rocks rude Sabbath Sally Sally Brown scarcely seemed servants sheep silent sira sira's sister sleeping snow soon squirrel stood tears tell thing Thomas Morton thought told trembling turf uncle vessel wadmel whilst wild strawberries wind winter wonders words Yokul
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Page 60 - 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 25 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Page 82 - But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you ; Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
Page 129 - Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Page 44 - The above is an outline of the situation and general appearance of this wonderful pool, but its horrors are absolutely indescribable. To be conceived, they must be seen ; and, for my part, I am convinced, that the awful impression they left upon my mind, no length of time will ever be able to erase.
Page 49 - ... psalm. Their morning devotions are conducted in a similar manner, at the lamp. When the Icelander awakes, he does not salute any person that may have slept in the room with him, but hastens to the door, and lifting up his eyes towards heaven, adores Him who made the heavens and the earth, the Author and Preserver of his being, and the source of every blessing. He then returns into the house, and salutes every one he meets with,
Page 47 - The work is no sooner begun, than one of the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga...
Page 48 - At the conclusion of the evening labours,- which are frequently continued till near midnight, the family join in singing a psalm or two; after which, a chapter from some book of devotion is read, if the family be not in possession of a Bible, but where this Sacred Book exists, it is preferred to -every other. A prayer is also read by the head of the family, and the exercise concludes with a psalm.
Page 47 - A winter evening in an Icelandic family, presents a scene in the highest degree interesting and pleasing. Between three and four o'clock the lamp is hung up in the principal apartment, which answers the double purpose of a...
Page 48 - The reader is frequently interrupted, either by the head, or some of the more intelligent members of the family, who make remarks on various parts of the story, and propose questions, with a view to exercise the ingenuity of the children and servants.