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
... knew no one where they were going , and my mother had never left me for a single day to the care of a nurse . After some hesitation , it was decided that I should stay , during their absence , with my father's aunt , who lived in a lit ...
... knew no one where they were going , and my mother had never left me for a single day to the care of a nurse . After some hesitation , it was decided that I should stay , during their absence , with my father's aunt , who lived in a lit ...
Pàgina 18
... knew aunt's mode of life , had advised me to submit to the order of her house , and I had promised to do so ; but my aunt was considerate , and knew that at my age I must have amuse- ments , and she took unwearied pains to furnish them ...
... knew aunt's mode of life , had advised me to submit to the order of her house , and I had promised to do so ; but my aunt was considerate , and knew that at my age I must have amuse- ments , and she took unwearied pains to furnish them ...
Pàgina 19
... knew and visited no one ! On our return , my aunt always inquired minutely of the girl who kept the yard , about her poultry , geese , pi- geons , ducks , and turkeys , which were shut up in the hen - coops and pigeon- house , that they ...
... knew and visited no one ! On our return , my aunt always inquired minutely of the girl who kept the yard , about her poultry , geese , pi- geons , ducks , and turkeys , which were shut up in the hen - coops and pigeon- house , that they ...
Pàgina 34
... knew not how , ) but that he also knew my thoughts . As soon as I could leave the table , I ran to my room to look for my letter . There it was , safely lying just as I had left it , and I blushed again , to think I had done such injury ...
... knew not how , ) but that he also knew my thoughts . As soon as I could leave the table , I ran to my room to look for my letter . There it was , safely lying just as I had left it , and I blushed again , to think I had done such injury ...
Pàgina 35
... knew it , and that reconciled me some- what to myself . In the evening , Augustus repeated what he had before said , that he should like nothing better than to have me con- tinue my studies , and we now agreed as to the order of the ...
... knew it , and that reconciled me some- what to myself . In the evening , Augustus repeated what he had before said , that he should like nothing better than to have me con- tinue my studies , and we now agreed as to the order of 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.