Floral Biography, Or, Chapters on FlowersBaker & Scribner, 1848 - 321 páginas |
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... earliest years , of whom I have long lost all trace , and who was there represented as having died rejoicing in the Lord . A few ques- tions elicited the fact of his having entered the army ; that he had been stationed in Ireland ; had ...
... earliest years , of whom I have long lost all trace , and who was there represented as having died rejoicing in the Lord . A few ques- tions elicited the fact of his having entered the army ; that he had been stationed in Ireland ; had ...
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... early friend of her departed husband , and from that time it seemed as though her only earthly enjoyment was to be found in my little study . Her story was this : she had married while both parties were in total ignorance of the gospel ...
... early friend of her departed husband , and from that time it seemed as though her only earthly enjoyment was to be found in my little study . Her story was this : she had married while both parties were in total ignorance of the gospel ...
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... early bereft of its idolized treasure . To me alone was the privilege allowed of numbering over with her the little relics of by - gone hours ; and of gazing on his miniature ; where his beautiful fea tures , that never seemed to have ...
... early bereft of its idolized treasure . To me alone was the privilege allowed of numbering over with her the little relics of by - gone hours ; and of gazing on his miniature ; where his beautiful fea tures , that never seemed to have ...
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... earliest period of her life , a cloud hangs ; but it is not the obscurity of darkness - rather it would seem , the outset ... early age of six years , Mary was removed from the paternal roof , and initiated by those among whom she sub ...
... earliest period of her life , a cloud hangs ; but it is not the obscurity of darkness - rather it would seem , the outset ... early age of six years , Mary was removed from the paternal roof , and initiated by those among whom she sub ...
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... early , long - con- tinued winter of the keenest severity was about to commence its reign over us - that we began instinc- tively to examine our coal - cellers , number our blank- ets , and canvass the merits of rival furriers . Not ...
... early , long - con- tinued winter of the keenest severity was about to commence its reign over us - that we began instinc- tively to examine our coal - cellers , number our blank- ets , and canvass the merits of rival furriers . Not ...
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Página 62 - People and realms of every tongue Dwell on His love with sweetest song; And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on His Name. 4 Blessings abound where'er He reigns; The prisoner leaps to lose his chains ; The weary find eternal rest, And all the sons of want are blest.
Página 67 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 219 - Man may trouble and distress me, 'Twill but drive me to thy breast ; Life with trials hard may press me, Heaven will bring me sweeter rest. Oh, 'tis not in grief to harm me, While thy love is left to me ; Oh, 'twere not in joy to charm me, Were that joy unmixed with thee.
Página 223 - Ye woodlands all, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves ! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds, sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
Página 79 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
Página 159 - God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Página 49 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Página 316 - God ; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ; that they might be called the trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Página 319 - ... not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound ; every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Página 133 - Godliness hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come.