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... hard , the plough can ' - not be em - ployed ' ; and when it is wet with rain or melt ' - ed snow , no seed can be sōwn . Some boys and girls are taught to spin cotton when they are ver ' - y young . It is true they earn a small sum by ...
... hard , the plough can ' - not be em - ployed ' ; and when it is wet with rain or melt ' - ed snow , no seed can be sōwn . Some boys and girls are taught to spin cotton when they are ver ' - y young . It is true they earn a small sum by ...
Page 19
... hard for a lit ' - tle girl like you to be o - bliged to sit all day and work , and to see oth ' - er chil - dren play ' - ing and not to go and play a lit ' - tle with them ; but you know , my dear , we are ver ' - y poor , and have ...
... hard for a lit ' - tle girl like you to be o - bliged to sit all day and work , and to see oth ' - er chil - dren play ' - ing and not to go and play a lit ' - tle with them ; but you know , my dear , we are ver ' - y poor , and have ...
Page 24
... hard ' - ly go on . When his mas ' - ter was ex - plain ' - ing an ' - y thing that might have in- struct ' - ed him , he nev ' - er listened to it , and thus lost all the ben ' - e - fit his kind pa - rents in- tend ' - ed him when ...
... hard ' - ly go on . When his mas ' - ter was ex - plain ' - ing an ' - y thing that might have in- struct ' - ed him , he nev ' - er listened to it , and thus lost all the ben ' - e - fit his kind pa - rents in- tend ' - ed him when ...
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... hard . He has gained the fa'- vour of pa - pa ' by his be ' - ing so mind ' - ful of his du ' - ty . These lambs gam ' - bol and frisk a - bout ' , and eat the blos ' - som off the furze . Foor things ! they do not know why they are ...
... hard . He has gained the fa'- vour of pa - pa ' by his be ' - ing so mind ' - ful of his du ' - ty . These lambs gam ' - bol and frisk a - bout ' , and eat the blos ' - som off the furze . Foor things ! they do not know why they are ...
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... hard ' - ly bear any noise , this good daugh ' - ter hushed all to si ' - lence . She in - vent ' - ed plays for the lit ' - tle ones , that would keep them still and qui ' - et ; and she taught them to speak in whis ' - pers . They ...
... hard ' - ly bear any noise , this good daugh ' - ter hushed all to si ' - lence . She in - vent ' - ed plays for the lit ' - tle ones , that would keep them still and qui ' - et ; and she taught them to speak in whis ' - pers . They ...
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Page 163 - But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, "We will not have this man to reign over us.
Page 164 - And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.
Page 159 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Page 160 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 134 - And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Page 143 - Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck ; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Page 146 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man, in the land of Canaan ; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 158 - We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 154 - And they set on for him by himself, and for. them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him : but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.
Page 142 - And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.