Nurse Grand's reminiscences at home and abroadReligious Tract Society, 1871 - 218 pages |
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Nurse Grand's reminiscences at home and abroad Cecilia Lucy Brightwell Affichage du livre entier - 1871 |
Nurse Grand's Reminiscences at Home and Abroad Cecilia Lucy Brightwell Affichage du livre entier - 1872 |
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afterwards AMELIA OPIE appearance approached asked attended aunt ayah beautiful behold beloved Benares Bible blessed Brahmin bright C. H. Spurgeon Calcutta called child Chinsurah Christ Christian cloth boards cottage Cuddalore dark daughter dear death deep distance distress door English Engravings evidently eyes father Fcap fear feelings felt forget friends GEORGE BURLEY gilt edges girl gospel grace hand happy hear heard heart HIMALAYA Hindoo holy hope hour husband idol India instantly interest Joe Young Kiernander knew Lake George learned length lived looked Lord Lukin mercy mind missionary morning mother mountains native neighbouring never night numerous Nurse Grand painful passed poor pray prayer Religious Tract Society rendered replied Saviour scene seemed seen sight snow soon sorrow spirit spoke stranger Swallowfield sweet temple thought told village voice woman words worship young ladies
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Page 80 - God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee; Where'er we turn, thy glories shine. And all things fair and bright are thine! When day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into heaven, Those hues, that make the sun's decline So soft, so radiant, Lord!
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Page 207 - JESSICA'S FIRST PRAYER?' This beautiful story exhibits a singularly minute and accurate knowledge of that class, its wants, and its capabilities As a literary effort it will hardly find a rival for nature, simplicity, pathos, and depth of Christian feeling. The writer is doubtless a woman — no man on earth could have composed a page of it.
Page 120 - Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Page 79 - On the evening of Friday, the 1st of October, while we were returning from Ticonderoga, we were presented with a prospect superior to any which I ever beheld. An opening lay before us, between the mountains on the west and those on the east, gilded by the departing sunbeams. The lake, alternately glassy and gently rippled, of a light and exquisite sapphire, gay and brilliant with the tremulous lustre already mentioned floating upon its surface, stretched in prospect to a vast distance, through a...
Page 67 - despise not the chastening of the Lord, for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and every son whom He receiveth.
Page 15 - Mid the lone ocean, of a friendly care, Whose eye and heart still held them in its view, And breathed for them a supplicating prayer : Nor knoweth man what love his steps attend, What unseen being is his guardian friend.
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Page 146 - ... elevation to any we have seen; their ruins lie in wild chaotic masses at their feet, and scantier wood imperfectly relieves their nakedness ; even the dark pine more rarely roots itself in the deep chasms which time has worn. Thus on all sides is the prospect closed, except in front to the eastward; where, from behind a mass of bare spires, four huge, lofty, snowy peaks arise ; these are the peaks of Roodroo-Himala. There could be no finer finishing, no grander close to such a scene.
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