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 7
... felt very sad at the idea , not only because I had never parted , from my father and mother be- fore , but I knew very little of my great- aunt , and my great - cousin . Both , how- ever , came to see us now and then , but 7 they were ...
... felt very sad at the idea , not only because I had never parted , from my father and mother be- fore , but I knew very little of my great- aunt , and my great - cousin . Both , how- ever , came to see us now and then , but 7 they were ...
Pàgina 8
... felt ashamed to call them aunt and cousin before other visiters . My aunt was a sprightly little woman , though full sixty years of age . She was fond of laughing and making a good joke , and never felt ashamed of walking on our parlour ...
... felt ashamed to call them aunt and cousin before other visiters . My aunt was a sprightly little woman , though full sixty years of age . She was fond of laughing and making a good joke , and never felt ashamed of walking on our parlour ...
Pàgina 9
... felt so strong an aversion to going there , but I had no good reason to give her , and dared not say that I did not think they were proper persons to take charge of a young girl like myself , because neither of them were fashionable ...
... felt so strong an aversion to going there , but I had no good reason to give her , and dared not say that I did not think they were proper persons to take charge of a young girl like myself , because neither of them were fashionable ...
Pàgina 13
... felt somewhat frightened , for the cur- tain being down I did not see the cause of the noise which seemed so strange to me . I arose , and putting aside a corner of the curtain , saw what it was . The two pigeons appeared enormously ...
... felt somewhat frightened , for the cur- tain being down I did not see the cause of the noise which seemed so strange to me . I arose , and putting aside a corner of the curtain , saw what it was . The two pigeons appeared enormously ...
Pàgina 14
... felt moved , but it was with a sweet emotion , and I opened my window . The sky was of a beautiful blue , with here and there light white clouds . At a distance were heard the soft murmurs which tell of the wak- ing of animated life ...
... felt moved , but it was with a sweet emotion , and I opened my window . The sky was of a beautiful blue , with here and there light white clouds . At a distance were heard the soft murmurs which tell of the wak- ing of animated life ...
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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.