The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar TupperSilas Andrus & Son, 1850 - 527 էջ |
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... wish that half the little farmers hereabouts were as well to do as he is : a pretty cottage , Sir John , half an acre of garden , and twelve shillings a - week , is pretty middling for a single man . " " Aha - is it ? —well ; but the ...
... wish that half the little farmers hereabouts were as well to do as he is : a pretty cottage , Sir John , half an acre of garden , and twelve shillings a - week , is pretty middling for a single man . " " Aha - is it ? —well ; but the ...
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... wish to make all happy , if you will suffer me to see to it myself— " " Certainly , Jennings , do , do by all means , and thank you : here , just to make a beginning , as we're all so jolly at the Hall , and that poor fellow's up to his ...
... wish to make all happy , if you will suffer me to see to it myself— " " Certainly , Jennings , do , do by all means , and thank you : here , just to make a beginning , as we're all so jolly at the Hall , and that poor fellow's up to his ...
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... wish that you had prayed in your distress ; stop , he did pray , and that vehemently ; but it was not for help , or guidance , or patience , or conso- lation - he only prayed for gold . CHAPTER VIII . THE COVETOUS DREAM . ONCE at home ...
... wish that you had prayed in your distress ; stop , he did pray , and that vehemently ; but it was not for help , or guidance , or patience , or conso- lation - he only prayed for gold . CHAPTER VIII . THE COVETOUS DREAM . ONCE at home ...
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... wish it had been ' troubles ; ' ' from all his troubles ' is a better thought to my mind : God wot , I have plenty on ' em , and a little lot of gold would save us from them all . " " Gold , father ? no , my father - God . " " I tell ...
... wish it had been ' troubles ; ' ' from all his troubles ' is a better thought to my mind : God wot , I have plenty on ' em , and a little lot of gold would save us from them all . " " Gold , father ? no , my father - God . " " I tell ...
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... wish I found the crock the de- the angel , I mean , brought me . " if " O father , " murmured Grace , " do not breathe the wicked wish ; even found it without any evil angel's help , would the gold be right- fully your own ? " you ...
... wish I found the crock the de- the angel , I mean , brought me . " if " O father , " murmured Grace , " do not breathe the wicked wish ; even found it without any evil angel's help , would the gold be right- fully your own ? " you ...
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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.