The Lily of the Valley

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J.M. Usher, 1850 - Gift books

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Page 306 - And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
Page 174 - I will pluck it from my bosom, though my heart be at the root.
Page 127 - But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a Critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach to know, How far your genius, taste, and learning go; Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.
Page 303 - God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 132 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry: in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach.
Page 240 - We cannot form a just conception of their nature without looking back on the mode of their formation. It is not organic matter alone that is continually undergoing change and being dissolved to form new combinations. The globe itself reveals at every phase of its existence the mystery of its former conditions.
Page 306 - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
Page 318 - TAKE THE WORLD AS IT IS. Take the world as it is ! There are good and bad in it, And good and bad will be from now to the end ; And they who expect to make saints in a minute Are in danger of marring more hearts than they mend.
Page 292 - For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 136 - I have visited, that young man shines most in conversation, and possesses the greatest powers of eloquence.

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