Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book: Being a Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, Founded Upon the Notes of a Home MissionaryJ.W. Moore, 1849 - 408 sider |
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... once to the task they had undertaken . " There " -cried one , " d ' you hear that ? " and as he spoke a curse both loud and deep , came up from the water's edge- " come , let us move on , and at least distri- bute our tracts . " - Yes ...
... once to the task they had undertaken . " There " -cried one , " d ' you hear that ? " and as he spoke a curse both loud and deep , came up from the water's edge- " come , let us move on , and at least distri- bute our tracts . " - Yes ...
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... One of these schools was organized , and yet meets , in Taylor's Alley , in a room that was once the " Ball - room " of one of the most notorious dens of inquity in our city . In this room MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE . 21.
... One of these schools was organized , and yet meets , in Taylor's Alley , in a room that was once the " Ball - room " of one of the most notorious dens of inquity in our city . In this room MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE . 21.
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... Once he had a com- fortable home , and he could look upon his little family with joy . But alas ! that rapacious disease , which has fastened itself upon him , has so long preyed upon his manly and athletic frame , that all his comforts ...
... Once he had a com- fortable home , and he could look upon his little family with joy . But alas ! that rapacious disease , which has fastened itself upon him , has so long preyed upon his manly and athletic frame , that all his comforts ...
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... yet these creatures , these poor , deluded , lost beings , have fami- lies , yea , little , half - naked , suffering children , whose homes present an appearance at once pitiable and repulsive . Yet 30 MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE .
... yet these creatures , these poor , deluded , lost beings , have fami- lies , yea , little , half - naked , suffering children , whose homes present an appearance at once pitiable and repulsive . Yet 30 MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE .
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... once pitiable and repulsive . Yet are they human , and help to narrative old Time , in his eternal round- " Each , in their turn some tragic story tells , With , now and then , a wretched farce between ; And fills his chronicles with ...
... once pitiable and repulsive . Yet are they human , and help to narrative old Time , in his eternal round- " Each , in their turn some tragic story tells , With , now and then , a wretched farce between ; And fills his chronicles with ...
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Side 64 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Side 25 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Side 25 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Side 382 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Side 264 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Side 25 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Side 70 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Side 251 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Side 107 - Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty...
Side 211 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...