Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book: Being a Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, Founded Upon the Notes of a Home MissionaryJ.W. Moore, 1849 - 408 páginas |
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... kind friend left to smooth his pillow , to lessen the burden of his wife , or to hush the cries of his little ones . But hark ! there is a knock at the door , and some one enters that abode of sorrow . It is the Home Missionary . He ...
... kind friend left to smooth his pillow , to lessen the burden of his wife , or to hush the cries of his little ones . But hark ! there is a knock at the door , and some one enters that abode of sorrow . It is the Home Missionary . He ...
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... kind of briory , and Colewort , set near together , one or both will die , the cause is , for that they be both great depredators of the earth , and one of them starveth the other . " - Bacon . IN the whole vocabulary of words , there ...
... kind of briory , and Colewort , set near together , one or both will die , the cause is , for that they be both great depredators of the earth , and one of them starveth the other . " - Bacon . IN the whole vocabulary of words , there ...
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... kind , equally poignant and distressing . Thus the evening passed heavily and cheerlessly away . On the morning of the contemplated sale , there was to be seen a crowd of people flocking to the house of Mr. Sunder- land . Some out of ...
... kind , equally poignant and distressing . Thus the evening passed heavily and cheerlessly away . On the morning of the contemplated sale , there was to be seen a crowd of people flocking to the house of Mr. Sunder- land . Some out of ...
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... the floor - for a moment they gazed upon each other in silence- " And she , you say , has been to you a friend ? ” " Indeed she has — a kind , noble one . " " Mr. Sunderland , stay - one moment my good 62 MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE .
... the floor - for a moment they gazed upon each other in silence- " And she , you say , has been to you a friend ? ” " Indeed she has — a kind , noble one . " " Mr. Sunderland , stay - one moment my good 62 MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE .
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... kind , to damn them - it smiles but to betray - it cheers but to madden ! I looked back over the short career of my life ; my property was wasting away , yet I valued it not ; worldly matters are beneath the thought of him who is lifted ...
... kind , to damn them - it smiles but to betray - it cheers but to madden ! I looked back over the short career of my life ; my property was wasting away , yet I valued it not ; worldly matters are beneath the thought of him who is lifted ...
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Página 64 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Página 25 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Página 25 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Página 382 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Página 264 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 25 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Página 70 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Página 251 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Página 107 - Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty...
Página 211 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...