The Writings of Jane Taylor, Volume 2

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Perkins & Marvin, 1832
 

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Page 79 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 224 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 27 - He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.
Page 42 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Page 44 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 170 - There be many that say, Who will show us any good ? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Page 264 - Since I'ma stranger here below, Let not Thy path be hid ; But mark the road my feet should go, And be my constant Guide.
Page 42 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and , behold , all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 51 - I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
Page 220 - Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock.

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