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... attend- ed ; worked in the garden , & c . in the summer , and attended school in the winter . He was remarkably kind and indulgent , and never gave me an angry word that I recollect , during the two years which I lived with him . I do ...
... attend- ed ; worked in the garden , & c . in the summer , and attended school in the winter . He was remarkably kind and indulgent , and never gave me an angry word that I recollect , during the two years which I lived with him . I do ...
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... attending in his grocery store . This , however , was not a situation much calculated to effect a reformation in me , even if such a work had depended on human I grew nothing better , but rather worse . the spring ( being fourteen years ...
... attending in his grocery store . This , however , was not a situation much calculated to effect a reformation in me , even if such a work had depended on human I grew nothing better , but rather worse . the spring ( being fourteen years ...
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... attended school . He now kept a public house , and I was surrounded with company the most of the time , who were ready to foster my natural levity , and help me forward in wickedness . I was a bright scholar in such a school , and made ...
... attended school . He now kept a public house , and I was surrounded with company the most of the time , who were ready to foster my natural levity , and help me forward in wickedness . I was a bright scholar in such a school , and made ...
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... attend to my work , and was obliged , some part of the time , to relinquish it , and retire to my bed . Mrs. R. manifest- ed much concern for me , and was ready to administer medicine , conceiving me physically diseased . But I wanted ...
... attend to my work , and was obliged , some part of the time , to relinquish it , and retire to my bed . Mrs. R. manifest- ed much concern for me , and was ready to administer medicine , conceiving me physically diseased . But I wanted ...
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... attend to the ordinances of the gospel , they shall be saved ? I returned home as bad as I came ; heavy laden in- deed , and thus continued for some days . I remember of but a very short time ( perhaps about an hour ) that my distress ...
... attend to the ordinances of the gospel , they shall be saved ? I returned home as bad as I came ; heavy laden in- deed , and thus continued for some days . I remember of but a very short time ( perhaps about an hour ) that my distress ...
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Page 210 - A certain man made a great supper, and bade many ; and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come ; for all things are now ready.
Page 284 - Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Page 283 - And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image ; these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Page 283 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 283 - For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh : and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
Page 284 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Page 283 - Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate : therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Page 283 - As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you ; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Page 153 - I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good ; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 283 - For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream : then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.