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He had a fear of the dead, and of all inanimate things, rising up around himto claim him; it isthe fearof thepre- eminently solitary child and solitary man.
Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle-shed, Where a mother laid her baby In a manger for his bed. Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.
Russian communism isthe illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
I think my grandmother actually smelled like a cookie and that's enough to get any child's attention.
I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.
Hark! The herald angels sing! Beecham's Pills are just the thing, Two for a woman, one for a child, Peace on earth and mercy mild!
I still hope to create a few great works and then like an old child to finish my earthly course somewhere among kind people.
Child! do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
'Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch, and tea Are all the human frame requires' With that the wretched child expires.
She was not really bad at heart, But only rather rude and wild; She was an aggravating child.
And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window's hue, A Baby in an ox's stall? The Maker of the stars and sea Become a Child on earth for me?
I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? isit well with the child? And sheanswered,It is well.
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said,There is a man child conceived.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Counseller,The mighty God, The everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, uponthethrone of David, and uponhis kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L of hosts will perform this.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw likethe ox. And thesucking child shall playonthehole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the L, as the waters cover the sea.
Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on theson of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
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