The Hidden HandFederal Book Company, 1859 - 238 Seiten |
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The Hidden Hand, Or, Capitola the Madcap Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1988 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 91 - This day be bread and peace my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.
Seite 67 - Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been...
Seite 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Seite 323 - Heaven has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate...
Seite 85 - The bride kissed the goblet, the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup, She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lip, and a tear in her eye.
Seite 67 - But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little...
Seite 7 - What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o
Seite 232 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
Seite 196 - Some weighty crime, that Heaven could not pardon, A secret curse on that old Building hung. And its deserted Garden.
Seite 163 - And he said to her : Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women : if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil ? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.
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