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... means , the estate she was struggling to save from the grasp of the law would be Harold's . Somehow the hated Durfey , the imbecile eldest , who seemed to have become tenacious of a despicable squandering life , would be got rid of ...
... means , the estate she was struggling to save from the grasp of the law would be Harold's . Somehow the hated Durfey , the imbecile eldest , who seemed to have become tenacious of a despicable squandering life , would be got rid of ...
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... mean That he should preach three sermons in a week . HAROLD TRANSOME did not choose to spend the whole evening with his mother . It was his habit to compress a great deal of effective conversation into a short space of time , asking ...
... mean That he should preach three sermons in a week . HAROLD TRANSOME did not choose to spend the whole evening with his mother . It was his habit to compress a great deal of effective conversation into a short space of time , asking ...
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... means of a closet capable of holding his bed , served also as a sleeping - room . The book - shelves did not suffice for his store of old books , which lay about him in piles so arranged as to leave nar- row lanes between them ; for the ...
... means of a closet capable of holding his bed , served also as a sleeping - room . The book - shelves did not suffice for his store of old books , which lay about him in piles so arranged as to leave nar- row lanes between them ; for the ...
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... mean you ill , for all that . He calls most folks ' religion rottenness ; and yet another time he'll tell me I ought to feel myself a sinner , and do God's will and not my own . But it's my belief he says first one thing and then ...
... mean you ill , for all that . He calls most folks ' religion rottenness ; and yet another time he'll tell me I ought to feel myself a sinner , and do God's will and not my own . But it's my belief he says first one thing and then ...
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... mean to take , after hindering your mother from making and selling these drugs ? I speak no more in their favor after what you have said . God forbid that I should strive to hinder you from seeking whatsoever things are honest and ...
... mean to take , after hindering your mother from making and selling these drugs ? I speak no more in their favor after what you have said . God forbid that I should strive to hinder you from seeking whatsoever things are honest and ...
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Page 251 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to over-peer, — Rather than fool it so, Let the high office and the honour go To one that would do thus.
Page 146 - I say the truth in Christ; I lie not, (my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,) that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 358 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 66 - For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool : for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
Page 146 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises : whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 301 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself,...
Page 448 - A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darknesg It is not true that love makes all things easy ; it makes us choose what is difficult.
Page 280 - His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
Page 50 - ... there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare.
Page 182 - For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities — a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces — a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.