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 16
... liberal and solid education for her son . My cousin had profited by his advantages , and in his turn gave himself up to his mother , whose devotion to him had been so warm and enduring . They both loved a country 16 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
... liberal and solid education for her son . My cousin had profited by his advantages , and in his turn gave himself up to his mother , whose devotion to him had been so warm and enduring . They both loved a country 16 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
Pàgina 21
write to them often , and not to omit any thing that gave me pleasure or pain . Mother ended hers with these words : " I think Augustus will be delighted to find my Caroline an attentive scholar in the lessons of philosophy , geography ...
write to them often , and not to omit any thing that gave me pleasure or pain . Mother ended hers with these words : " I think Augustus will be delighted to find my Caroline an attentive scholar in the lessons of philosophy , geography ...
Pàgina 25
... gave his own life for the ransom of my soul , it is easy to see that the evil lies deep in a selfish and ungrateful nature , and that the cure of it must come from above . CHAPTER III . THE RED APRON . I MUST Own 3 THE GOOD PEOPLE . 25.
... gave his own life for the ransom of my soul , it is easy to see that the evil lies deep in a selfish and ungrateful nature , and that the cure of it must come from above . CHAPTER III . THE RED APRON . I MUST Own 3 THE GOOD PEOPLE . 25.
Pàgina 38
... gave me the surname of Au- gustus " the Just , " and I was very proud of this title , and took great care to de- serve it . " My mother and I , at that time , lived outside of the walls of one of the suburbs of Paris . " We possessed ...
... gave me the surname of Au- gustus " the Just , " and I was very proud of this title , and took great care to de- serve it . " My mother and I , at that time , lived outside of the walls of one of the suburbs of Paris . " We possessed ...
Pàgina 40
... gave , in order to comprehend the fright of the geese sur- rounding them as if they were trying to separate them . " I stood for some moments a spectator of the combat , as did several other chil- dren who had been drawn there by the ...
... gave , in order to comprehend the fright of the geese sur- rounding them as if they were trying to separate them . " I stood for some moments a spectator of the combat , as did several other chil- dren who had been drawn there by the ...
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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.