The Early Choice; a Book for DaughtersT. Nelson and Sons, 1855 - 320 pages |
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Page 116 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 241 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Page 190 - Verily, I say unto you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of, for a memorial of her.
Page 200 - esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt.
Page 244 - Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 80 - How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.
Page 28 - ... at once her countenance lighted up with a human expression. It was no longer a dog or parrot ; it was an immortal spirit eagerly seizing upon a new link of union with other spirits...
Page 15 - * such as become those that profess godliness," find record in the Book of Life. Sisters, are not our rights sufficiently comprehensive, the sanctuary of home, the throne of the heart, the moulding of the whole mass of mind, in its first formation ? Have we not power enough in all realms of sorrow and suffering, over all forms of want and ignorance, amid all ministries of love, from the cradle-dream to the sealing of the sepulchre...
Page 206 - Brother, fear not; greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world.
Page 64 - Tis reason's voice obey'd his glories crown: To give lost reason life, he pour'd his own. Believe, and show the reason of a man ; Believe, and taste the pleasure of a God; Believe, and look with triumph on the tomb.