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... wonder little that the nurses , with whom he was a favourite , declared " they never saw sic a laddie . " The shock received by George in his first experience of the operating theatre was sufficient to make him shrink from a speedy ...
... wonder little that the nurses , with whom he was a favourite , declared " they never saw sic a laddie . " The shock received by George in his first experience of the operating theatre was sufficient to make him shrink from a speedy ...
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... another world and yet a lingering interest in a present . That the latter should remain is no cause of wonder , specially in her disease . " What this disease was , with its GW E Catherine clinging to life , the reader will easily surmise.
... another world and yet a lingering interest in a present . That the latter should remain is no cause of wonder , specially in her disease . " What this disease was , with its GW E Catherine clinging to life , the reader will easily surmise.
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... wonder that I hesitated little to accompany Mr. Mackay to Glasgow , in which place , and the adjoining towns and the like , I have spent more than two weeks , having returned to town on Friday evening from Lanark , which I made the goal ...
... wonder that I hesitated little to accompany Mr. Mackay to Glasgow , in which place , and the adjoining towns and the like , I have spent more than two weeks , having returned to town on Friday evening from Lanark , which I made the goal ...
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... wonder some of the painters don't build themselves a painting - box , as the sportsmen do a shooting box , beside the Cat - nick the whole line of buildings , the alternation of land and sea , are so fitted to show every charm which ...
... wonder some of the painters don't build themselves a painting - box , as the sportsmen do a shooting box , beside the Cat - nick the whole line of buildings , the alternation of land and sea , are so fitted to show every charm which ...
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... wonder , that he had been thus preserved . Much of his safety may be attributed to early training and pleasant home influences ; much also to the happy buoy- ancy of spirit that never forsook him , while the eager craving after ...
... wonder , that he had been thus preserved . Much of his safety may be attributed to early training and pleasant home influences ; much also to the happy buoy- ancy of spirit that never forsook him , while the eager craving after ...
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Página 65 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Página 306 - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Página 205 - Its features were fixed and meaningless, Yet animal life was there, And every organ yet performed Its natural functions : 'twas a sight Of wonder to behold the body and soul. The self-same lineaments, the same Marks of identity were there : Yet, oh, how different ! One aspires to Heaven, Pants for its sempiternal heritage, And ever-changing, ever-rising still, Wantons in endless being.
Página 2 - THEY grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee, Their graves are severed far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the...
Página 367 - Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart...
Página 6 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Página 88 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Página 316 - God's countenance, and a few groans by the infinite and eternal hallelujahs ; so much are the sorrows of the godly to be undervalued in respect of what is deposited for them in the treasures of Eternity.
Página 154 - ... where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ^And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : ** where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Página 151 - The particular pangs are now forgotten ; but the blank whirlwind of emotion, the horror of great darkness, and the sense of desertion by God and man, bordering close upon despair, which swept through my mind and overwhelmed my heart, I can never forget, however gladly I would do so.