The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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... beautiful and useful creations hitherto remained without their due meed of praise and record , either in sober prose or sound- ing rhyme , -while their glittering antithesis , the scathing and destroying sword , has been the theme of ...
... beautiful and useful creations hitherto remained without their due meed of praise and record , either in sober prose or sound- ing rhyme , -while their glittering antithesis , the scathing and destroying sword , has been the theme of ...
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... beautiful , was hers , To bring before her God . " - HEMANS . IN speaking of the origin of needlework it will be necessary to define accurately what we mean by the term " needlework ; " or else , when we assert that Eve was the first ...
... beautiful , was hers , To bring before her God . " - HEMANS . IN speaking of the origin of needlework it will be necessary to define accurately what we mean by the term " needlework ; " or else , when we assert that Eve was the first ...
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... beautiful mother of Israel , for whom Jacob toiled fourteen years , which were but as one day for the love he bare her - this child , so eagerly coveted by his mother , so devotedly loved by his father , and who was destined hereafter ...
... beautiful mother of Israel , for whom Jacob toiled fourteen years , which were but as one day for the love he bare her - this child , so eagerly coveted by his mother , so devotedly loved by his father , and who was destined hereafter ...
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... beautiful child in a coat of various colours tastefully sewed together ; and it may not perhaps be very absurd to refer even to so ancient an origin as Joseph's coat of many colours the superstition now prevalent in some countries ...
... beautiful child in a coat of various colours tastefully sewed together ; and it may not perhaps be very absurd to refer even to so ancient an origin as Joseph's coat of many colours the superstition now prevalent in some countries ...
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... Beautiful and good , the blessing of Heaven attending him , and throwing a beam of light on his fair brow , the pure and holy child appears like a seraph administering at that altar to which he had been consecrated a babe , and at which ...
... Beautiful and good , the blessing of Heaven attending him , and throwing a beam of light on his fair brow , the pure and holy child appears like a seraph administering at that altar to which he had been consecrated a babe , and at which ...
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