Historical selections, a series of readings on English and European history, selected and arranged by E.M. Sewell and C.M. Yonge, Volume 2Elizabeth Missing Sewell 1870 |
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Page 31 - The editor has aimed to produce a book "which the emigrant, finding room for little not absolutely necessary, might yet find room for in his trunk, and the traveller in his knapsack, and that on some narrow shelves where there are few books this might be one.
Page 165 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak : for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
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