The old farm house, or Alice Morton's home, and other storiesW.P. Nimmo, 1872 - 127 pages |
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... book was spread before her also , and she was learning her texts for the next Sunday , Glancing at the book for a minute , she would THE FARM HOUSE IN SHADOW . II.
... book was spread before her also , and she was learning her texts for the next Sunday , Glancing at the book for a minute , she would THE FARM HOUSE IN SHADOW . II.
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... book aside , as she knew quite well neither her father nor her brother would have any sympathy with the holy book she was reading ; she was sure of a reproof from the one , or a careless jest from the other . Alas ! religion was little ...
... book aside , as she knew quite well neither her father nor her brother would have any sympathy with the holy book she was reading ; she was sure of a reproof from the one , or a careless jest from the other . Alas ! religion was little ...
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... book ; it was the first time her father had ever asked her to read to him . She thought of Mr. Herbert's text on Sunday , and read slowly , Whoso confesseth , and forsaketh his sins , shall have mercy . ' ' Stop there , Alice ; that's ...
... book ; it was the first time her father had ever asked her to read to him . She thought of Mr. Herbert's text on Sunday , and read slowly , Whoso confesseth , and forsaketh his sins , shall have mercy . ' ' Stop there , Alice ; that's ...
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... books . God answers Job out of the whirlwind , and says , ' Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades ? ' It has taken us all these years to learn that the ' sweet influences ' alluded to is the tre- mendous force that so ...
... books . God answers Job out of the whirlwind , and says , ' Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades ? ' It has taken us all these years to learn that the ' sweet influences ' alluded to is the tre- mendous force that so ...
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... books and papers that he knew but little of what was going on in the country round . One day a message came to him from the King's palace , and he was told to find an answer to a certain question ; he was to search far and near till a ...
... books and papers that he knew but little of what was going on in the country round . One day a message came to him from the King's palace , and he was told to find an answer to a certain question ; he was to search far and near till a ...
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ADELAIDE AUSTEN aërial train Alice atmosphere Aunt Betsy beautiful Bolides Books published bound in cloth boys Bridda bright brother called CHARLES BRUCE cloth extra clouds cold colour comet coming crown 8vo dark earth eight moons eyes Farmer Morton father and Harry feyther fire flowers girl glimpse gold golden golden palace gone to bed Harry Morton Harry's horse heard heart heat heavens Illustrations Ivon IVON'S QUESTION Jesus Jupiter king's palace light looked Lutine Mars moon Moorfields mother never night NIMMO'S Ninette numbers orbs paint passed PETER GRANT planet Pleiades published by William rays red planet Mars RICHARD NEWTON round Saturn screen seemed Sidelle solar system stars Stories sun's surface Swan and Eagle tell things thought Thoughtland thousand Tiny and Bobby trade winds traveller Uranus visible voice watch weary wonderful wood words Young
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Page 127 - Tales of Old English Life ; or, Pictures of the Periods. By WILLIAM FRANCIS COLLIER, LL.D., Author of ' History of English Literature,
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Page 76 - And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star. 0 star of strength ! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain ; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again. Within my breast there is no light, But the cold light of stars ; I give the first watch of the night To the red planet Mars.
Page 74 - THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little moon Drops down behind the sky. There is no light in earth or heaven, But the cold light of stars ; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars.
Page 84 - That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool cisterns of the midnight air, My spirit drank repose; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows.