The better way; or, What do I live for? |
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... listen to the words in which they promised to renounce the devil and all his works and the pomps and vanities of this wicked world , and then I compared that with Mrs. Primrose's oft - repeated wish that her young ladies should make a ...
... listen to the words in which they promised to renounce the devil and all his works and the pomps and vanities of this wicked world , and then I compared that with Mrs. Primrose's oft - repeated wish that her young ladies should make a ...
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... listened to so unusual an interrogatory . Involuntarily she took up the book , and was about to open it , when I exclaimed , " But please , Mrs. Primrose , I don't want to know what the catechism says , for I have read it a hundred ...
... listened to so unusual an interrogatory . Involuntarily she took up the book , and was about to open it , when I exclaimed , " But please , Mrs. Primrose , I don't want to know what the catechism says , for I have read it a hundred ...
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... listening and thinking , and was only slightly disturbed by the gaily dressed assemblage of ladies around me , some of whom were nodding and smiling to their various acquaintances , while others kept up a constant under - current of ...
... listening and thinking , and was only slightly disturbed by the gaily dressed assemblage of ladies around me , some of whom were nodding and smiling to their various acquaintances , while others kept up a constant under - current of ...
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... mourned in secret over the delusions of so noble a people . After the recital of the days of her highest glory , there followed the history of her gradual decline , and I could have wept as I listened 58 WHAT DO I LIVE FOR !
... mourned in secret over the delusions of so noble a people . After the recital of the days of her highest glory , there followed the history of her gradual decline , and I could have wept as I listened 58 WHAT DO I LIVE FOR !
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Randall H. Ballantyne. decline , and I could have wept as I listened to the tale of her corruption , her over - refinement ... listen- ing to the glowing recitals of Thermopyla and Marathon . Still , in the midst of all this excit- ing ...
Randall H. Ballantyne. decline , and I could have wept as I listened to the tale of her corruption , her over - refinement ... listen- ing to the glowing recitals of Thermopyla and Marathon . Still , in the midst of all this excit- ing ...
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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.