Amos HuntingdonT. Nelson and Sons, 1881 - 422 من الصفحات |
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Amos Huntingdon Amos's asked Aunt Kate auntie better brother brought called chalk-pit cheque child cloth extra Coloured cottage course Crown 8vo dear Amos dear aunt dear boy dear father dear Walter Diet of Worms door doubt duty Engravings excitement exclaimed eyes face fair brow feel felt Flixworth Manor friends give Gregson guineas hand happy Harry heart hope horse husband Illustrations JULES MICHELET keep knew laughing looked Margaret Wilson Master Amos Master Walter mean mind Miss Huntingdon Miss Julia moral courage moral hero morning mother nephew never noble once Pavenham perhaps pony Post 8vo Price replied Amos round Royal 18mo Saunders sister smile soon spare squire steeplechase suppose sure Sutterby tears tell Thank thing thought trouble true turned Vivian voice wife wish words young
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الصفحة 193 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
الصفحة 84 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 84 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
الصفحة 400 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
الصفحة 246 - I will make you steward of my own house," added Bonner, in a gentle and crafty manner. " But, my lord," was the reply, " if you cannot persuade my conscience by Scripture, I cannot find in my heart to turn from God for the love of the world ; for I count all worldly things but loss, in comparison with the love of Christ.
الصفحة 417 - Not a book of ornithological science, but a history of the Bird in its most " picturesque and poetical aspects, from the egg in the nest to the "triumph of the wing" in the sea-eagle. We have described here birds of the Polar Regions, and of the Tropics; birds of passage, birds of prey; the song of the nightingale and of the robin, &c. The exquisite illustrations introduce varied kinds of landscape scenery. THE INSECT. By JULES MICHELET.
الصفحة 202 - Christian to do any thing against his conscience. Here I stand ; I cannot do otherwise ; God help me.
الصفحة 422 - WHG KINGSTON. IN THE EASTERN SEAS ; or, The Regions of the Bird of Paradise. A Tale for Boys. With One Hundred and Eleven Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, richly gilt. Price 6s. SATURDAY REVIEW. — "One of those stories of adventure in which boys delight.
الصفحة 422 - Saved from the Sea ; or, The Loss of the Viper, and the Adventures of her Crew in the Great Sahara. With 30 Full-page Engravings. Gilt edges. Price 5s. The South Sea Whaler: A Story of the Loss of the Champion, and the Adventures of her Crew.
الصفحة 419 - THE CHILDREN ON THE PLAINS. A Story of Travel and Adventure in the Great Prairies of North America. By the Author of "The Babes in the Basket.