The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar TupperSilas Andrus & Son, 1850 - 527 էջ |
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... earth yields indeed her increase , but it is for others ; from the fields of plenty they glean a scanty pittance , and fill the barns to bursting , while their children cry for bread . Not that Roger for his part often wanted work ; he ...
... earth yields indeed her increase , but it is for others ; from the fields of plenty they glean a scanty pittance , and fill the barns to bursting , while their children cry for bread . Not that Roger for his part often wanted work ; he ...
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... earth , and , when his work is done , to be sent on better service in some happier sphere : the where , or the how , did not puzzle him , any more than divers other enigmatical whys and wherefores of his present state ; he only knew ...
... earth , and , when his work is done , to be sent on better service in some happier sphere : the where , or the how , did not puzzle him , any more than divers other enigmatical whys and wherefores of his present state ; he only knew ...
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... earth could be the matter , he saw a vision of waste and wealth , at which he stood like one amazed , for a poor man's mind could never have conceived its equal . Evidently , he had intruded on the latter end of a long and luxurious ...
... earth could be the matter , he saw a vision of waste and wealth , at which he stood like one amazed , for a poor man's mind could never have conceived its equal . Evidently , he had intruded on the latter end of a long and luxurious ...
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... earth , long before its " brief lord " had commenced his day's labour . Yes , it had been lost a good hour ere he found it out , for he had fancied that he had felt it there , and often did he feel , but his fancy was a but- ton ; and ...
... earth , long before its " brief lord " had commenced his day's labour . Yes , it had been lost a good hour ere he found it out , for he had fancied that he had felt it there , and often did he feel , but his fancy was a but- ton ; and ...
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... earth would become of them ? There was the Union workhouse to be sure , but Acton shuddered at the thought ; to be separated from every thing he loved , to give up his little all , and be made . both a prisoner and a slave , all for the ...
... earth would become of them ? There was the Union workhouse to be sure , but Acton shuddered at the thought ; to be separated from every thing he loved , to give up his little all , and be made . both a prisoner and a slave , all for the ...
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Էջ 499 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Էջ 373 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Էջ 407 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Էջ 36 - Israel, trust in the LORD ; for with the LORD there is mercy : and with Him is plenteous redemption. And He shall redeem Israel : from all his sins.
Էջ 62 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Էջ 104 - Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Էջ 495 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Էջ 371 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Էջ 388 - Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?
Էջ 469 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.