Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside storiesHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - Authors, American |
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Page 133 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike ; And like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 396 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Page 51 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 84 - From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
Page 186 - our Father above, who sees all the history of our minds, and how they work, must have a toleration and a patience that we have not with each other. He says that he will bring the blind by a way they knew not, and 'make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight'; and he adds, These things will I do unto them, and will not forsake them.
Page 65 - ... -Choose you this day whom ye will serve. If the Lord be God, serve him, and if Baal be God, serve him," was a grand appeal, fit for freemen. The reasoning on moral government, on the history of man, — the theories of the universe, past, present, and to come...
Page 285 - I'm afraid he'll get up,' says she, 'when you do.' "'Oh, no, he won't!' says the parson, quite confident. 'There, there,' says he, layin' his hands on him as if pronouncin
Page 284 - Sure enough, there was the old tom-turkey a-struttin' and a-sidlin' and a-quitterin', and a-floutin' his tail-feathers in the sun, like a lively young widower, all ready to begin life over ag'in. "'But,' says Huldy, 'you know he can't set on eggs.
Page 284 - Scroggs killed it; though Scroggs he stood to it he didn't: at any rate, the Scroggses they made a meal on't; and Huldy she felt bad about it, 'cause she'd set her heart on raisin' the turkeys; and says she, 'Oh, dear!
Page 287 - ... em, and said nothin'; and in good time there was as nice a lot o' turkey-chicks as ever ye see. "Huldy never said a word to the minister about his experiment, and he never said a word to her; but he sort o' kep' more to his books, and didn't take it on him to advise so much.