The Watch Tower: Vol. 1 No. 1, Volume 1, Issue 1Watch Tower - 380 pages The first printing of the 19th century Church of England publication "The Watch Tower" |
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... fancy . Thank God , who blesses all efforts , however humble , to make His world brighter and better , such cases are happening around us now . To the honour of the wives and mothers of England , there are more applications for domestic ...
... fancy . Thank God , who blesses all efforts , however humble , to make His world brighter and better , such cases are happening around us now . To the honour of the wives and mothers of England , there are more applications for domestic ...
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... fancy that faintly delicious odour might be symbolical of her pure life , which had been spent almost entirely in this happy valley , where her own sloping meadows and wide - spreading gardens encircled and shut her in from the outer ...
... fancy that faintly delicious odour might be symbolical of her pure life , which had been spent almost entirely in this happy valley , where her own sloping meadows and wide - spreading gardens encircled and shut her in from the outer ...
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... fancy the pronoun my will disappear henceforward out of the record of my life . Our grandmamma is dead ; a sweet and peaceful end has closed one of the purest lives that ever elevated womanhood into saintliness . My aunts have married ...
... fancy the pronoun my will disappear henceforward out of the record of my life . Our grandmamma is dead ; a sweet and peaceful end has closed one of the purest lives that ever elevated womanhood into saintliness . My aunts have married ...
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... fancy , and he ought to have been a soldier . Alone with him in a besieged fortress — famine inside the walls and a host of foes without , -one would have felt safer than in the midst of a battalion of meaner men . " He has looked ...
... fancy , and he ought to have been a soldier . Alone with him in a besieged fortress — famine inside the walls and a host of foes without , -one would have felt safer than in the midst of a battalion of meaner men . " He has looked ...
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... fancy that the weaker we are ourselves , the more readily we throw ourselves at the feet of anything that represents power . Are there not hapless heathen creatures who cast themselves beneath the car of Juggernaut , only because the ...
... fancy that the weaker we are ourselves , the more readily we throw ourselves at the feet of anything that represents power . Are there not hapless heathen creatures who cast themselves beneath the car of Juggernaut , only because the ...
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Page 30 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 5 - Buy those things that we have need of against the feast ; or, that he should give something to the poor. He then having received the sop went immediately out : and it was night. Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Page 231 - Touch her not scornfully; Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly; Not of the stains of her; All that remains of her Now is pure womanly.
Page 130 - Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 214 - WHAT slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave, Pyrrha for whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden Hair, Plain in thy neatness? O how oft shall he On Faith and changed Gods complain : and Seas Rough with black winds and storms Unwonted shall admire : Who now enjoys thee credulous, all Gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee ; of flattering gales Unmindful.
Page 15 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Page 145 - His happy home, the ground. To left and right, The cuckoo told his name to all the hills ; The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm ; The redcap whistled ; and the nightingale Sang loud, as tho
Page 229 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 226 - SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers...
Page 34 - But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.