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... cousin Grace . You are nearly double her age , and therefore able to bring her on materially in her studies . Only think what an influence a girl like you may exercise over the child , for good or evil . I should not like her to hear ...
... cousin Grace . You are nearly double her age , and therefore able to bring her on materially in her studies . Only think what an influence a girl like you may exercise over the child , for good or evil . I should not like her to hear ...
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... cousin Grace at- tended a day - school , and the only really useful thing I did for my dear aunt , at this time , was devoting an hour in the evenings to helping the child in preparing her lessons for the en- suing day . extreme . Annie ...
... cousin Grace at- tended a day - school , and the only really useful thing I did for my dear aunt , at this time , was devoting an hour in the evenings to helping the child in preparing her lessons for the en- suing day . extreme . Annie ...
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... Grace came to me with an open book in her hand . " Cousin Harriet , " she said , " will you please to hear me say my hymn ? " and without waiting for a reply , she began to repeat the following lines : - In some the soul doth sleeping ...
... Grace came to me with an open book in her hand . " Cousin Harriet , " she said , " will you please to hear me say my hymn ? " and without waiting for a reply , she began to repeat the following lines : - In some the soul doth sleeping ...
Page 160
... cousin Grace , in spite of her good sense and her being an old maid , is spoiling my Jane too ! This elderly lady is indeed the little cousin Grace of former days . She has never mar- ried , and has devoted her life to an object which ...
... cousin Grace , in spite of her good sense and her being an old maid , is spoiling my Jane too ! This elderly lady is indeed the little cousin Grace of former days . She has never mar- ried , and has devoted her life to an object which ...
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... Cousin Grace grew up following in the footsteps of Miss Winslow ; and when that honoured servant of God was called away , amid the tears and lamentations of all around , to enter into the joy of her Lord , Grace took her place , and ...
... Cousin Grace grew up following in the footsteps of Miss Winslow ; and when that honoured servant of God was called away , amid the tears and lamentations of all around , to enter into the joy of her Lord , Grace took her place , and ...
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Page 127 - My covenant was with him of life and peace ; and I gave them to him for the fear, wherewith he feared Me, and was afraid before My name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips : he walked with Me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
Page 39 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Page 128 - Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Page 127 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Page 161 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 149 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 29 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Page 117 - God, and ye are not your own? Ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Page 154 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 143 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.