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Pagina 2
... kind of trial which tests the endurance and patience , and tries the very foundation of character . And such a life , for many years , was Mary Lister's . Reviewing , as I do now , a considerable portion of my life spent in almost ...
... kind of trial which tests the endurance and patience , and tries the very foundation of character . And such a life , for many years , was Mary Lister's . Reviewing , as I do now , a considerable portion of my life spent in almost ...
Pagina 2
... kind of trial which tests the endurance and patience , and tries the very foundation of character . And such a life , for many years , was Mary Lister's . Reviewing , as I do now , a considerable portion of my life spent in almost ...
... kind of trial which tests the endurance and patience , and tries the very foundation of character . And such a life , for many years , was Mary Lister's . Reviewing , as I do now , a considerable portion of my life spent in almost ...
Pagina 16
... kind , patient , loving father , closed his eyes in death and left me to struggle alone in this world of trial . Yes , utterly desolate indeed but for the precious thought of that " Father of the fatherless " to whom only I could now ...
... kind , patient , loving father , closed his eyes in death and left me to struggle alone in this world of trial . Yes , utterly desolate indeed but for the precious thought of that " Father of the fatherless " to whom only I could now ...
Pagina 18
... kind Providence that directed me to Newburn , a pleasant market town in the West Riding , and the home of my beloved Mary . I am not , in the following pages , intending to relate the history of my own life . It is chiefly as an ...
... kind Providence that directed me to Newburn , a pleasant market town in the West Riding , and the home of my beloved Mary . I am not , in the following pages , intending to relate the history of my own life . It is chiefly as an ...
Pagina 24
... missis , " and of bringing her to the farm at once if she was able to come . The kind - hearted woman was soon on her way , her heart fluttering painfully at the fearful nature of the task she 24 FANNY LEE'S TESTIMONY :
... missis , " and of bringing her to the farm at once if she was able to come . The kind - hearted woman was soon on her way , her heart fluttering painfully at the fearful nature of the task she 24 FANNY LEE'S TESTIMONY :
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Pagina 79 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Pagina 132 - Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth! Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
Pagina 356 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Pagina 38 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Pagina 61 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence. But health consists with temperance alone : And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Pagina 143 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Pagina 110 - Beauty is my Love, Yet in her earnest face There's such a world of tenderness, She needs no other grace.
Pagina 132 - Men make resolves, and pass into decrees The motions of the mind! with how much ease, In such resolves, doth passion make a flaw, And bring to nothing what was raised to law! In empire young, scarce warm on Gotham's throne, The dangers and the sweets of...
Pagina 192 - Hail, social life ! into thy pleasing bounds Again I come to pay the common stock, My share of service, and, in glad return, To taste thy comforts, thy protected joys.
Pagina 324 - Good men have said That sometimes God leaves sinners to their sin,— He has left me to mine, and I am changed; My worst part is insurgent, and my will Is weak .and powerless as a trembling king When millions rise up hungry.