Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, MassCrocker and Brewster, 1833 - 360 pages |
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Page vi
... hand upon the burning coals because it had mistaken its victim , and slain but a courtier , when it aimed at a king ; or , like Decius Mus , to have rushed , a self - devoted sacrifice , into the heart of the enemy's array , to secure ...
... hand upon the burning coals because it had mistaken its victim , and slain but a courtier , when it aimed at a king ; or , like Decius Mus , to have rushed , a self - devoted sacrifice , into the heart of the enemy's array , to secure ...
Page vii
... hands that wrought the sculptures of the Parthenon ; the for- gotten architects of Gothic cathedrals , and the builders of the Pyramids , equally forgotten ; -these , though unregis- tered here , have yet a being in that invisible world ...
... hands that wrought the sculptures of the Parthenon ; the for- gotten architects of Gothic cathedrals , and the builders of the Pyramids , equally forgotten ; -these , though unregis- tered here , have yet a being in that invisible world ...
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... hand of mercy to draw her up to heaven . There is a refined and elevated sympathy awakened to- wards the dead , whom we thus recognise only as of the ineffable number of influential beings , whose lives are pro- longed in their history ...
... hand of mercy to draw her up to heaven . There is a refined and elevated sympathy awakened to- wards the dead , whom we thus recognise only as of the ineffable number of influential beings , whose lives are pro- longed in their history ...
Page xxii
... hands it may come , and to whose hearts it may speak in that pure and beautiful language , which the spirit of the writer herself would hardly disown in her beatified state ; yet to the better sex especially - to the young , the beloved ...
... hands it may come , and to whose hearts it may speak in that pure and beautiful language , which the spirit of the writer herself would hardly disown in her beatified state ; yet to the better sex especially - to the young , the beloved ...
Page xxiii
... hand has not trembled , as if it felt a feebler pulse at turn- ing over leaf after leaf ? and whose eye has not keenly , eagerly , yet afraid and revoltingly , glanced on to the very line in which the last agony is described , as though ...
... hand has not trembled , as if it felt a feebler pulse at turn- ing over leaf after leaf ? and whose eye has not keenly , eagerly , yet afraid and revoltingly , glanced on to the very line in which the last agony is described , as though ...
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Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington: Of Boston, Mass Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner,Susan Huntington No preview available - 2016 |
Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, Mass (Classic Reprint) Susan Huntington No preview available - 2017 |
Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, Mass (Classic Reprint) Susan Huntington No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 152 - Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 217 - Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Page 98 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering ; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed.
Page 218 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Page 116 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 169 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 204 - By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin...
Page 94 - All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Page 177 - And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 201 - I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up : while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.