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... perhaps , you and I may not exactly agree on the subject of learning to converse . I should be very sorry to teach you to be a great talker . Many people chatter very fast , and many others keep prosing very long , who say little to the ...
... perhaps , you and I may not exactly agree on the subject of learning to converse . I should be very sorry to teach you to be a great talker . Many people chatter very fast , and many others keep prosing very long , who say little to the ...
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... Perhaps I ought to explain to you , that there are two things on which conversation much depends . " " What are they ? " 66 Manner , and matter . However plea- sant the manner of a person may be in talking , if his matter be bad , no ...
... Perhaps I ought to explain to you , that there are two things on which conversation much depends . " " What are they ? " 66 Manner , and matter . However plea- sant the manner of a person may be in talking , if his matter be bad , no ...
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... perhaps , these few lines may assist you . A year is happy when it is well begun , well spent , and well ended . How to begin a new year well : - Think a little of the year that is gone . It will never return , but has passed away for ...
... perhaps , these few lines may assist you . A year is happy when it is well begun , well spent , and well ended . How to begin a new year well : - Think a little of the year that is gone . It will never return , but has passed away for ...
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... religion , and virtue . HEBRON . HEBRON is one of the oldest towns in the world . It was built seven years before Zoan , in Egypt , perhaps about one hundred and. PLACES MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE . 16 PLACES MENTIONED ...
... religion , and virtue . HEBRON . HEBRON is one of the oldest towns in the world . It was built seven years before Zoan , in Egypt , perhaps about one hundred and. PLACES MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE . 16 PLACES MENTIONED ...
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Zoan , in Egypt , perhaps about one hundred and sixty years after the flood . The first inhabitants were most likely some of the Canaanites , whose descendants were after- wards destroyed for their wickedness ; for Ephron , the Hittite ...
Zoan , in Egypt , perhaps about one hundred and sixty years after the flood . The first inhabitants were most likely some of the Canaanites , whose descendants were after- wards destroyed for their wickedness ; for Ephron , the Hittite ...
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Page 164 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 283 - And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip ; and his sling was in his hand : and he drew near to the Philistine.
Page 6 - Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips.
Page 165 - WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Page 40 - And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
Page 195 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 219 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 164 - O come, let us sing unto the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with Psalms.
Page 253 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 187 - And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.