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Sida 32 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Sida 48 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Sida 18 - ... according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.
Sida 15 - I have led but a lonely life, and have often had but little to cat, but my Bible has been meat, drink, and company to me, as I may say, and when want and trouble have come upon me, I don't know what I should have done indeed, sir, if I had not had the promises of this book for my stay and support.
Sida 14 - I believe there is no day for the last thirty years, that I have not peeped at my Bible. If we can't find time to read a chapter, I defy any man to say he can't find time to read a verse; and a single text sir, well followed and put in practice every day, would make no bad figure at the year's end...
Sida 9 - Mr. Johnson, who delighted in good men and good things, was very well satisfied with his reply. For he justly thought that though a hypocrite may easily contrive to appear better than he really is, to a stranger, and that no one should be too soon trusted merely for having a few good words in his mouth; yet, as he knew that "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," he always accustomed himself to judge favorably of those who had a serious deportment and solid manner of speaking.
Sida 11 - You think, then," said the gentleman, " that a laborious life is a happy one." — "I do, sir, and more so especially, as it exposes a man to fewer v sins. If king Saul had continued a poor laborious man to the end of his days, he might have lived happy and honest, and died a natural death in his bed at last, which you know, sir, was more than he did. But I...
Sida 9 - ... the sky, that rain was at no great distance, accosted the shepherd with asking what sort of weather he thought it would be on the morrow. " It will be such weather as pleases me,
Sida 41 - You must know, sir, that both of us, next to a sin, dread a debt, and indeed in some cases a debt is a sin ; but with all our care and pains, we have never been able quite to pay off the doctor's bill for that bad fit of rheumatism which I had last winter.