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 8
... of claret colour , great iron - heeled shoes on his feet , and his hand armed with a huge knotty club , instead of a genteel walking - stick ; all this produced so disagreeable an effect on me , that I would 8 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
... of claret colour , great iron - heeled shoes on his feet , and his hand armed with a huge knotty club , instead of a genteel walking - stick ; all this produced so disagreeable an effect on me , that I would 8 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
Pàgina 42
... these tokens of his gratitude , that I caressed him a little , passing my hand softly on his neck and back , which pleased him so much that he hardly knew how to show it . " I have seldom seen a cat or a dog 42 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
... these tokens of his gratitude , that I caressed him a little , passing my hand softly on his neck and back , which pleased him so much that he hardly knew how to show it . " I have seldom seen a cat or a dog 42 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
Pàgina 51
... a crime they have not committed , whatever may be their own merit . It rewards , on the other hand , the descendants of a great man , however unworthy they may be . Both of these things may appear alike unjust at first DICKY THE SECOND .
... a crime they have not committed , whatever may be their own merit . It rewards , on the other hand , the descendants of a great man , however unworthy they may be . Both of these things may appear alike unjust at first DICKY THE SECOND .
Pàgina 53
... hand , said to me in a tone of kindness , " My little cousin knows what is needed to derive benefit from every thing that can improve her mind or character . Her good sense will not suffer her to disdain or reject any thing , even in ...
... hand , said to me in a tone of kindness , " My little cousin knows what is needed to derive benefit from every thing that can improve her mind or character . Her good sense will not suffer her to disdain or reject any thing , even in ...
Pàgina 60
... hand , bread , grain and fruit . " " To that I have nothing to answer , " said Augustus , laughing in spite of him- self . " But where were we ? " " On the point of going to sleep ! " re- plied my aunt . " It is late , let us have the ...
... hand , bread , grain and fruit . " " To that I have nothing to answer , " said Augustus , laughing in spite of him- self . " But where were we ? " " On the point of going to sleep ! " re- plied my aunt . " It is late , let us have the ...
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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.