My Awkward Cousin, Or, Caroline's Visit to Her Great-aunt's Poultry YardAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1848 - 107 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... appeared enormously large , but as they were only pigeons , I took courage and turned my eyes out upon the extended plain . Towards the horizon was the river glittering in the rising sun , and forming a silver sheet , intercepted here ...
... appeared enormously large , but as they were only pigeons , I took courage and turned my eyes out upon the extended plain . Towards the horizon was the river glittering in the rising sun , and forming a silver sheet , intercepted here ...
Pàgina 16
... appeared as the result of the lonely state in which they had always lived ; but I believe their charac- ter and not their situation was the cause of an originality which , in more social life , would have shown itself in another form ...
... appeared as the result of the lonely state in which they had always lived ; but I believe their charac- ter and not their situation was the cause of an originality which , in more social life , would have shown itself in another form ...
Pàgina 27
... all the geese and ganders appeared to me to be so like each other , that after this , every one I saw had the same effect on me , as if he had been the great Dicky himself , who looked at me , as my aunt THE RED APRON . 27.
... all the geese and ganders appeared to me to be so like each other , that after this , every one I saw had the same effect on me , as if he had been the great Dicky himself , who looked at me , as my aunt THE RED APRON . 27.
Pàgina 32
... appeared still more striking , and at the sight of the leather cap again , when I came to dinner , I could not possibly keep from laughing . " Whatever you are laughing at , " said Augustus , with a grave air , " it pleases me , my ...
... appeared still more striking , and at the sight of the leather cap again , when I came to dinner , I could not possibly keep from laughing . " Whatever you are laughing at , " said Augustus , with a grave air , " it pleases me , my ...
Pàgina 33
... appearance . " To one who at that moment could have known us both thoroughly , how much kindness , and intelligence , and wisdom would have appeared in him , and how much igno- rance and folly in me . So man looks on the outward ...
... appearance . " To one who at that moment could have known us both thoroughly , how much kindness , and intelligence , and wisdom would have appeared in him , and how much igno- rance and folly in me . So man looks on the outward ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 105 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Pàgina 3 - The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Pàgina 104 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour.
Pàgina 4 - Congress, in the year 1851, by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 4S* No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz.
Pàgina 105 - And I turned myself to behold wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? Even that which hath been already done. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
Pàgina 28 - Hurdy staggered from the spot, feeling his throat as he went, and turning his head first to one side and then to the other, to see if it was not dislocated.
Pàgina 68 - I hardly listened to a word that was said, and as soon as I could get away, I ran up to my room.