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Page 160 - Who gave you this Name ? Answer. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 240 - GUIDE me, O thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land : I am weak, but thou art mighty ; Hold me with thy powerful hand : Bread of heaven, Feed me till I want no more.
Page 172 - The first Sunday after the Epiphany. The Collect. OLord, we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people which call upon thee; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 106 - ... avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called...
Page 259 - Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who hath given you a good will to do all these things, grant also unto you strength and power to perform the same; that, he accomplishing in you the good work which he hath begun, you may be found perfect and irreprehensible at the last day, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 327 - I sympathize with him," said Mrs. King, "and he just said, 'Oh yes; yes, yes. Do you think we are going to have rain?' Some one ought to tell him, flatly and frankly, to try and accustom himself to speak of Mr. Jim; it would be a great deal better for him." Lucy was silent, sitting with her hands in her lap, looking out of the window into the rainy garden. Her worstedwork had been given up soon after she came to live with her sister, for Martha had pointed out to her that it was very foolish to make...
Page 240 - Sometimes the power of laying hold of is ascribed not to a person, his vision or other sense, or his mind, heart, or imagination but to the thing which draws to itself his attention, his eye, or his fancy <the fact caught her interest, just as sometimes a point in a wide dull landscape catches the eye...
Page 338 - Lucy's eyes suddenly filled. Mr. Horace looked at her, with instant sympathy in his ruddy old face. So youth may grieve, after all? "My dear, I have recently suffered a loss myself," he said, gently. "Oh yes," said Lucy; "I know. I was very sorry, sir." "Ah — well," said Mr. Horace, with a sigh — "he was sick a long time. I ought not to begrudge him his release. Yes, he had been an invalid for many years. But he was the bravest of the brave. My brother was a sailor in his youth. He had many interesting...
Page 223 - ... the active, often vigorous, exercise of a power or faculty <the continued exertion of vigilance) <wearied by overexertion) <a ... man. capable of close application of mind, and great exertion of body— Dickens) Often, however, especially when not followed by of, exertion means a laborious effort <his work was done with remarkable grace, but with exertions which it was painful to witness; for he had but one leg. and had to use a crutch...
Page 351 - Poor little girl! poor little frightened, helpless child! "And I would be less lonely," he said to himself, suddenly. "Jim would call me an old fool, but it would please him to have me less lonely.