Elsie DinsmoreDodd, Mead, 1896 - 342 páginas Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldly father who seems indifferent to her religious principles. |
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66 Elsie afraid angry arms Arthur asked Aunt Adelaide Aunt Chloe beautiful Bible bressed caress Carrington cheek child chile copy-book cried darlin darling daugh dear papa delight Dinsmore's door drawing-room Elsie answered Elsie's Enna exclaimed eyes face father fear feel give glad glance hand happy head heart hope Horace Dinsmore hour kiss knee knew lady laughing lesson little daughter little Elsie little girl look Lora love Jesus Lucy mamma mammy Miss Allison Miss Day Miss Elsie Miss Rose Miss Stevens morning naughty never nursling obeyed Pilgrim's Progress Pompey portico punish replied Elsie replied the little returned ride Roselands Sabbath seated seemed sigh smile sobbed soft eyes soon sorry speak sure sweet talk tears tell Thank thought to-morrow tone took Travilla trembling turned walk wish word young young rascal рара
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Página 257 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Página 160 - In that day there shall be a fountain opened To the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem For sin and for uncleanness.
Página 179 - The bird that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing, they say,
Página 236 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Página 292 - Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not.
Página 213 - Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Página 254 - I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Página 182 - And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer ; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Página 257 - I read also what Christ affirms, that God is more willing to give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, than earthly parents are to give good gifts to their children.
Página 18 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.