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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... never enter , for there , ice , and snow , and desolation reign ! The same wind , cold , and bitter as it is , selects out the half freezing forms as they shiver and shake on their bed of straw , and numb there naked limbs with its icy ...
... never enter , for there , ice , and snow , and desolation reign ! The same wind , cold , and bitter as it is , selects out the half freezing forms as they shiver and shake on their bed of straw , and numb there naked limbs with its icy ...
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... never changes , the living world changes , sin and crime have usurped the place of flowers and birds . A curse rests over all - it is heard in the thunder , and is echoed in storm and tempest . It is seen in the lightning's flash , it ...
... never changes , the living world changes , sin and crime have usurped the place of flowers and birds . A curse rests over all - it is heard in the thunder , and is echoed in storm and tempest . It is seen in the lightning's flash , it ...
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... never hear the name of our blessed Master , except from the lips of the swearer , and to hold religious conversation and prayer with them , distribute tracts , institute Sabbath Schools , & c . & c . To recount all the good it has ...
... never hear the name of our blessed Master , except from the lips of the swearer , and to hold religious conversation and prayer with them , distribute tracts , institute Sabbath Schools , & c . & c . To recount all the good it has ...
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... The one lives in the * To the credit of Philadelphia publishers be it said , such a thing has never occurred to the knowledge of the author . brightness and the beauty of the world , the other MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE . 27.
... The one lives in the * To the credit of Philadelphia publishers be it said , such a thing has never occurred to the knowledge of the author . brightness and the beauty of the world , the other MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE . 27.
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... messenger in her rags , looked down at the cradle , and wiped away a tear for those whose poverty , of which he had never dreamt , but which he now came to relieve . Mary , " he said , " I have this 36 MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE .
... messenger in her rags , looked down at the cradle , and wiped away a tear for those whose poverty , of which he had never dreamt , but which he now came to relieve . Mary , " he said , " I have this 36 MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE .
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Agnes Alfred appearance asked beautiful beneath bless bright called Charles Marlowe cheek child Clairville cold crime curse dark daughter dead dear death dollars door dreams dwelling earth exclaimed eyes father fearful feel gazed George Somers Giles girl grave hand happy heard heart heaven Henry Middleton hope human Kris Kringle labor LEAF light Little Savage lives look Lucy Marlowe Mary Mary Elliott mind misery Missionary mother never night o'er opened pale pale moonlight passed Peter Helm Philadelphia picture poor Poplar Lane Potter's Field poverty pray prayer readers rich scene sick smile Somers sorrow soul sound speak Stephen Girard stood street Sunderland Switzer tears tell tempest thee thing thought uttered voice wife wild window woman words wretched yellow fever young youth
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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...