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... delights ; has ad- ministered to you the healing balm in fick- nefs ; and has inftilled into your mind the love of truth , of virtue , and of wisdom . Oh ! cherish every fentiment of respect for fuch a mother . She merits your warmest ...
... delights ; has ad- ministered to you the healing balm in fick- nefs ; and has inftilled into your mind the love of truth , of virtue , and of wisdom . Oh ! cherish every fentiment of respect for fuch a mother . She merits your warmest ...
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... delightful change which has fuddenly taken place in the whole creation ? Recol- lect the appearance of the scene before us yesterday . The ground was then parched with a long drought ; the flow- ers hid their drooping heads ; no fra ...
... delightful change which has fuddenly taken place in the whole creation ? Recol- lect the appearance of the scene before us yesterday . The ground was then parched with a long drought ; the flow- ers hid their drooping heads ; no fra ...
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... Delighted Delighted with the artlefs melody of the linnet , the 32 TALES . MORAL THE FOLLY AND ODIOUSNESS OF AFFECTATION.
... Delighted Delighted with the artlefs melody of the linnet , the 32 TALES . MORAL THE FOLLY AND ODIOUSNESS OF AFFECTATION.
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Thomas Percival. Delighted with the artlefs melody of the linnet , the goldfinch , the woodlark , and the thrush , they were all ear , and obferved not a peacock , which had strayed from a distant farm , and was approaching them with a ...
Thomas Percival. Delighted with the artlefs melody of the linnet , the goldfinch , the woodlark , and the thrush , they were all ear , and obferved not a peacock , which had strayed from a distant farm , and was approaching them with a ...
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... delight which we receive from revifiting those fcenes , in which we paffed our youth ; the school where our first friendships were formed ; or the academic groves in which fair fcience unveiled herself to our enrap- tured view . Sueto ...
... delight which we receive from revifiting those fcenes , in which we paffed our youth ; the school where our first friendships were formed ; or the academic groves in which fair fcience unveiled herself to our enrap- tured view . Sueto ...
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Էջ 142 - And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
Էջ 142 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you ; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone ; if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Էջ 142 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Էջ 142 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Էջ 142 - Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way : and thus did he unto them.
Էջ 145 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither.
Էջ 145 - And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Էջ xxiv - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Էջ 93 - I'll lay my life the thing is blue." "And I'll be sworn, that when you've seen The reptile, you'll pronounce him green." "Well, then, at once to ease the doubt," Replies the man, "I'll turn him out; And when before your eyes I've set him, If you don't find him black, I'll eat him...
Էջ 12 - Yon house, erected on the rising ground, With tempting aspect drew me from my road ; For plenty there a residence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the...