The Morning of Life: A Memoir of Miss A---n, who was Educated for a Nun : with Many Interesting Particulars Concerning Dr. Doyle |
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... friendship , to her of whom it speaks . Yet is she fully persuaded that the true object of a memoir , though of one so beloved , is not to pour forth the expression of an individual affection , in which the public is not interested ...
... friendship , to her of whom it speaks . Yet is she fully persuaded that the true object of a memoir , though of one so beloved , is not to pour forth the expression of an individual affection , in which the public is not interested ...
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... friends could reach her . Whilst they were all screaming with terror , one of the bigger boys sprang across , catching hold with one hand of some boughs which stretched out over the river , whilst with the other hand he seized the ...
... friends could reach her . Whilst they were all screaming with terror , one of the bigger boys sprang across , catching hold with one hand of some boughs which stretched out over the river , whilst with the other hand he seized the ...
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... nought but Christ can satisfy . It is only when He is with us that we can calmly enter the valley of the shadow of death , and fear no evil . Priests and friends having failed in their utmost attempts to 16 The Morning of Life .
... nought but Christ can satisfy . It is only when He is with us that we can calmly enter the valley of the shadow of death , and fear no evil . Priests and friends having failed in their utmost attempts to 16 The Morning of Life .
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... friends having failed in their utmost attempts to afford her any consola- tion , her daughter Sarah said to her , " I remember , mamma , when papa was dying he used to call me often to the side of his bed , and tell me to read the Bible ...
... friends having failed in their utmost attempts to afford her any consola- tion , her daughter Sarah said to her , " I remember , mamma , when papa was dying he used to call me often to the side of his bed , and tell me to read the Bible ...
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... friends had fixed that she should enter it at the age of fourteen , but God , in His wisdom , ordered it otherwise . Sarah began to doubt whether the Church of Rome were right in its high pretensions , and whether it were , after all ...
... friends had fixed that she should enter it at the age of fourteen , but God , in His wisdom , ordered it otherwise . Sarah began to doubt whether the Church of Rome were right in its high pretensions , and whether it were , after all ...
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Page 119 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace, In the world ye shall have tribulation : but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Page 24 - Night is the time for toil ; To plough the classic field, Intent to find the buried spoil Its wealthy furrows yield ; Till all is ours that sages taught, That poets sang or heroes wrought. Night is the time to weep ; To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years ; • Hopes that were Angels in their birth, But perished young, like things of earth...
Page 101 - Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. My Father's house on high, Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden gates appear! Ah! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above!
Page 136 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 113 - THERE is an hour of peaceful rest, To mourning wanderers given ; There is a joy for souls distressed, A balm for every wounded breast : 'Tis found above — in heaven.
Page 26 - ... and that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness : that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Page 22 - Woe unto you that are full ! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Page 126 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Page 113 - There fragrant flowers immortal bloom, And joys supreme are given; There rays divine disperse the gloom: Beyond the confines of the tomb Appears the dawn of heaven.
Page 111 - I know whom I have believed, and that He is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.