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... hands not stained by blood , they justified their profession by relief and love and kindly offices . Sometimes , indeed , they received little tracts of land ; not seized by the hand of power , nor grasped by superior cunning , but ...
... hands not stained by blood , they justified their profession by relief and love and kindly offices . Sometimes , indeed , they received little tracts of land ; not seized by the hand of power , nor grasped by superior cunning , but ...
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... Hand Book of Wines , 361. The Standard Speaker , 363. Pynnshurst : His Wander- ings and Ways of Thinking , 365. The Buckeye Abroad ; or Wanderings in Eu- rope , 366. Meditations in America , and other Poems , 367. Examples of Life and ...
... Hand Book of Wines , 361. The Standard Speaker , 363. Pynnshurst : His Wander- ings and Ways of Thinking , 365. The Buckeye Abroad ; or Wanderings in Eu- rope , 366. Meditations in America , and other Poems , 367. Examples of Life and ...
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... hands not stained by blood , they justified their profession by relief and love and kindly offices . Some- times , indeed , they received little tracts of land ; not seized by the hand of power , nor grasped by superior cunning , but ...
... hands not stained by blood , they justified their profession by relief and love and kindly offices . Some- times , indeed , they received little tracts of land ; not seized by the hand of power , nor grasped by superior cunning , but ...
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identity ; to forget that he was more than an instrument in the hands of GOD , to do God's work ; and the distinction ... hand ; received him as a brother ; won him over to listen patiently ; and then taught him first that which he could ...
identity ; to forget that he was more than an instrument in the hands of GOD , to do God's work ; and the distinction ... hand ; received him as a brother ; won him over to listen patiently ; and then taught him first that which he could ...
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... hand , one by one , as they approached to bid him farewell , as they thought , for the last time , he turned his ... hand of GOD ; and , trusting to the protection of that Hand , they set out upon THE legend of the Piasan is well known ...
... hand , one by one , as they approached to bid him farewell , as they thought , for the last time , he turned his ... hand of GOD ; and , trusting to the protection of that Hand , they set out upon THE legend of the Piasan is well known ...
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Page 213 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it.
Page 58 - Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Page 245 - God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 30 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 269 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't.
Page 181 - The Western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land; And never home came she.
Page 318 - Have with our needles created both one flower. Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.