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Nora: the lost and redeemed - Page 116
by Lydia Folger Fowler - 1863 - 219 pages
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Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Colorado of the Most ..., Volumes 38-39

1898 - 992 pages
...Grand Jurisdic tions which have been placed in our hands, we realize more sensibly the solemn fact thai "The air is full of farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead." And that "All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom." We are...
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Cheerful To-days and Trustful To-morrows

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster - 1899 - 352 pages
...sickness smote her, and she was not, for God had taken her. "There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ; There is no household, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair." "One Little Daughter." Very blank was the empty space, very silent the house,...
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Letters to a Mother on the Philosophy of Froebel

Susan Elizabeth Blow - 1899 - 348 pages
...realize what it means to be the denizen of a world which is forever fleeing from itself, and whose air is full of " farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead," stretch your thought, and from these commonplaces of change pass to its wider workings. Remind yourself...
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Winsome Womanhood: Familiar Talks on Life and Conduct

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster - 1900 - 266 pages
...adored, the father we honored, the friends who made our sunshine. " There is no flock however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there; There is no household howsoe'er defended But has one vacant chair." Not always have our eyes been clear to see, through the films and mists of our...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

1903 - 1186 pages
...dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Btagnation. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead. But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. What seem to us but sad, funereal...
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Comforting Words for Sorrowing Mothers ...

1902 - 86 pages
...of being a rare human experience is one of the most common : "There is no flock however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there: There is no household howsoe'er defended, But has one empty chair," and the tinj' mounds in every graveyard attest the truth of these words. It is...
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Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (English)

Helena Swan - 1904 - 630 pages
...farewell to the girl that would die for your sake ! J. SHERIDAN LE FANU, Shemus O'Brien, Pt. I., II. 56-9. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead. HW LONGFELLOW, By the Fireside: Resignation, st. 2. " Thy farewell had a sound of sorrow in it." HW...
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The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors ..., Volume 3

Algernon Graves - 1905 - 458 pages
...child, etc." 345 The isolated village — time of inundation of the Nile. 432 Gordon's last messenger. "The air is full of farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead." 1340 The Holy Mother. 1886. 87 Puritan and cavalier. 232 Trespassers. 266 " Old maid." 688 Susannah....
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Physician and Surgeon: A Professional Medical Journal, Volume 27

1905 - 644 pages
...and other luminaries who have recently crossed the portals of eternity in such close succession that "the air is full of farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead." ORIGIN OF THE FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL IN AMERICA. DOCTOR CHARLES W. DULLES, Lecturer on the History of...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - 1906 - 1198 pages
...watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead. But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. What seem to us but sad, funereal...
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