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... sometimes showed that her mental powers were in some respects well developed . Polly could walk a little , and her great pleasure was for Jack to draw her out into the fields , where she could crawl about on the grass , gather daisies ...
... sometimes showed that her mental powers were in some respects well developed . Polly could walk a little , and her great pleasure was for Jack to draw her out into the fields , where she could crawl about on the grass , gather daisies ...
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... sometimes be heard , or the sentinel - rook's " caw ! " to announce danger to his feeding comrades . Hoar frost , if it make our fingers ache , gives us a short - lived vision of strange beauty and splendour , when it adorns even dead ...
... sometimes be heard , or the sentinel - rook's " caw ! " to announce danger to his feeding comrades . Hoar frost , if it make our fingers ache , gives us a short - lived vision of strange beauty and splendour , when it adorns even dead ...
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... Sometimes he will play ball for a few minutes , and then he is off sawing wood again , or at his desk with his book or slate . I like him very much ; still , I do not feel intimate with him , and I do not think there is one boy in ...
... Sometimes he will play ball for a few minutes , and then he is off sawing wood again , or at his desk with his book or slate . I like him very much ; still , I do not feel intimate with him , and I do not think there is one boy in ...
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... Sometimes it was dark and late before the barrow was empty ; and though the old man kindly sent him up the small streets where he knew people lived likely to be customers , and gave him all the advantage of his own experience and ...
... Sometimes it was dark and late before the barrow was empty ; and though the old man kindly sent him up the small streets where he knew people lived likely to be customers , and gave him all the advantage of his own experience and ...
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... sometimes carried in his chair from the back room to bask in the sun in the shop , and as often as a fresh supply of fish comes in , he tastes , with a knowing look , a cockle or a mussel , and tries to give his opinion in words ...
... sometimes carried in his chair from the back room to bask in the sun in the shop , and as often as a fresh supply of fish comes in , he tastes , with a knowing look , a cockle or a mussel , and tries to give his opinion in words ...
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Page 152 - Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful : for he had great possessions.
Page 151 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 70 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 65 - Get up, get up for shame ! the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Page 157 - God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our humble petitions ; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us ; for the honour of Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Advocate.
Page 154 - I had from my first years by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father, whom God recompense, been exercised to the tongues, and some sciences, as my age would suffer, by sundry masters and teachers both at home and at the schools...
Page 230 - Listen to the wond'rous story, Which they chant in hymns of joy ; " Glory in the highest, glory ! Glory be to God most high...
Page 9 - Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning, what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul : mark the decay And growth of it : if with thy watch, that too Be down, then wind up both ; since we shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
Page 155 - LET us, with a gladsome mind, Praise the Lord, for he is kind ; For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure.
Page 193 - For us, the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see, but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.