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 20
... kind of work that could be done without giv- ing to it continued attention . One morning , being very tired of our long walks , I was trying to find some way to make my aunt understand that I should prefer staying at home , when Kitty ...
... kind of work that could be done without giv- ing to it continued attention . One morning , being very tired of our long walks , I was trying to find some way to make my aunt understand that I should prefer staying at home , when Kitty ...
Pàgina 46
... kind , and it was also my love for justice which gained me his regards . That battle I ought , however , to tell you , did not take place in our poultry yard , where my mo- ther knows full well how to keep up good feeling among her pets ...
... kind , and it was also my love for justice which gained me his regards . That battle I ought , however , to tell you , did not take place in our poultry yard , where my mo- ther knows full well how to keep up good feeling among her pets ...
Pàgina 47
... kind of life to which we subject it . That to her , as to nearly all the web - footed race , belong the airy plains , the waters of the wide rivers and extensive lakes . That she is made to fly and swim , and not merely to walk in the ...
... kind of life to which we subject it . That to her , as to nearly all the web - footed race , belong the airy plains , the waters of the wide rivers and extensive lakes . That she is made to fly and swim , and not merely to walk in the ...
Pàgina 61
... own accord . ) " Geese have a habit of screaming when any one approaches them . " " A pretty habit indeed ! " said I. " Whatever kind of food is offered to them they always cry out , and this proves that 6 THE LITTLE CHICKEN . 61.
... own accord . ) " Geese have a habit of screaming when any one approaches them . " " A pretty habit indeed ! " said I. " Whatever kind of food is offered to them they always cry out , and this proves that 6 THE LITTLE CHICKEN . 61.
Pàgina 66
... kind of hammer ; it has a little beak , well pointed , and tipped at the end with a kind of horn , and he rubs the shell in the same place continually , and thus breaks off little bits . ' " See , aunt , a little piece has fallen off ...
... kind of hammer ; it has a little beak , well pointed , and tipped at the end with a kind of horn , and he rubs the shell in the same place continually , and thus breaks off little bits . ' " See , aunt , a little piece has fallen off ...
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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.