Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volumen2J. & J. Harper, 1831 |
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... heard in his favour . There was no sitting for effect ; nothing artificial about his demeanour - no careful carelessness of attitude - no knitting of the brows , or painful straining of the eyes , to look bril- liant or acute ! The mere ...
... heard in his favour . There was no sitting for effect ; nothing artificial about his demeanour - no careful carelessness of attitude - no knitting of the brows , or painful straining of the eyes , to look bril- liant or acute ! The mere ...
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... heard poured from the lips of a young speaker - or possibly any speaker whatsoever , except himself in after - life . He seemed long disinclined to enhance the effect of what he was uttering by oratorical ges- ture . His hands both ...
... heard poured from the lips of a young speaker - or possibly any speaker whatsoever , except himself in after - life . He seemed long disinclined to enhance the effect of what he was uttering by oratorical ges- ture . His hands both ...
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... heard little or nothing of one another for several years . In the very depth of my distress -during the first four years of my establishment in London - I recollect once calling at the hotel which he generally made his town - quarters ...
... heard little or nothing of one another for several years . In the very depth of my distress -during the first four years of my establishment in London - I recollect once calling at the hotel which he generally made his town - quarters ...
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... heard letting down at the door . Mr. Stafford turned to them with an eye of agony , as his lady and one of her little girls descended . “ I think we'd perhaps better not join her ladyship before our setting off , " said Lord A ...
... heard letting down at the door . Mr. Stafford turned to them with an eye of agony , as his lady and one of her little girls descended . “ I think we'd perhaps better not join her ladyship before our setting off , " said Lord A ...
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... heard correctly- " Poor boy ! Poor boy ! " At length the work of loading being completed , and the distance - six paces - duly stepped out , the duellists walked up to their respective stations . Their proximity was perfectly frightful ...
... heard correctly- " Poor boy ! Poor boy ! " At length the work of loading being completed , and the distance - six paces - duly stepped out , the duellists walked up to their respective stations . Their proximity was perfectly frightful ...
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Página 220 - But the father said to his servants ; Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry ; For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Página 11 - Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this ? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Página 45 - ... the Bible opened for worship— her own little room kept so neatly for her, with its mirror hanging by the window, in which to braid her hair by the morning light — her bed prepared for her by her mother's hand — the primroses in her garden peeping through the snow— old Tray, who ever welcomed her home with his dim white eyes — the pony and the cow ; — friends all, and inmates of that happy household.
Página 45 - Glen-Scrae, and in a few seconds she felt on her face some flakes of snow. She looked up the glen, and saw the snow-storm coming down fast as a flood. She felt no fears ; but...
Página 219 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Página 7 - The broken-hearted boy could give no reply. He had gradually stolen closer and closer unto the loving old man ; and now was lying, worn out with sorrow, drenched and dissolved in tears, in his grandfather's bosom. His mother had sunk down on her knees, and hid her face with her hand.
Página 47 - And, drawing her plaid more closely around her, she whispered, beneath its ineffectual cover, " Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, — thy kingdom come, — thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Página 46 - ... child frozen to death on that very moor, — and, in a moment, she knew that she was to die. Bitterly did the poor child weep, for death was terrible to her, who, though poor, enjoyed the bright little world of youth and innocence. The skies of heaven were dearer than she knew to her, — so were the flowers of earth. She had been happy at her work, — happy in her sleep, — happy in the kirk on Sabbath.
Página 44 - ... that she knew, and called them, in her joy, by the names they bore among the shepherds. There were none to hear her voice or see her smiles but the ear and eye, of Providence...