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Excerpt from A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Vol. 1In these circumstances it was found impossible to carry out the original project of the Committee. They arranged accordingly that the present volumes and the smaller History should be issued as soon as they could be prepared, and that Vols. III. And IV. Completing the official History should follow with the least possible delay.Vols. I. And II. Close with the account of the...

Excerpt from A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Vol. 3The Shipping on the Thames - The Fateful Minute-hand - The Division of Wales - Old Servants and New - Continental Tours - Progress in the Principality - Veteran Colporteurs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Boo...

Excerpt from A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Vol. 5Government, as we understand the word, was unknown. Such order as existed was enforced by punitive raids and ruthless massacres. Long oppression and injustice had bred a sullen fear and a restless distrust which destroyed all kindly intercourse. Outside the city walls travellers' tents were not safe at night without a guard of soldiers. Townsmen could not even name the vill...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The ComradesThe signal-cry of scattered comrades, calling Home! Home! Home!And home we wended when the dusk was falling, The pledged companions, talking, laughing, singing, Home through the grey French country, no one missing. And now I hear the old-time voices calling Home! Home! Home!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a rep...

Excerpt from Songs of England's GloryAnd sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving ...

Excerpt from A Lost Epic: And Other PoemsWas sunny and blossom-blithe, and but to live A very joy for he'd outgrown the broad Untutored heart of homely man and maid, And, heedless of the common work-day life Which prompts the poems all the world can feel, Could scorn the only pages left to keep His name in kindly memory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks...

Excerpt from The Bible StoryAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a...

Excerpt from The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon PeopleSufieringatwhichithasbeenboughtandpreserved, and to suggest rather than to describe the place which.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original ...

Excerpt from The Story of Saint Elizabeth of HungaryHungary. A grey hill - castle rises from the mist and the snowy pines of the Thurin gian forest, and a girlish figure appears on the frosty hill-traek, letting fall from her apron a shower of angelic roses. She brings with her the freshness and colour of the summer dawn, and for a moment her simple sweetness illumines the cbnfused dusky re cesses of the Middle Ages.About the PublisherForgotte...

Excerpt from The Bible and the English PeopleIF the people of Great Britain were asked which one of all their possessions was most precious to them, it is hard to conceive what other answer they could give but the Bible. And they. Would answer well. For to that book they are indebted for many of the qualities and most of the institutions which have given Great Britain its place in the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Excerpt from W. V., Her Book and Various VersesIs still a tri¿e bare and the wind some what too bleak for any one to get comfortably lost in the Forest or cast up on a coral reef, so we have made her birthday a movable feast, and whenever a fine free Saturday comes round we devote it to thankfulness that she has been born, and to the joy of our both being alive together.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...

Excerpt from The Invisible Playmate: W. V. He'r Book in MemoryA Lost Epic, and other Poems, 1887, The Invisible Playmate: a Story of the Unseen, 1894, 1897, W. V. Her Book and Various Verses, 1896, A Child's Book of Saints, 1898, 1902, Children' s Sayings, Edited, with a Digression on the Small P le, 1900, The True Annals 04 Fairyland (the Reign of Kin kwia a), 1900, etc., In Memory of W. V. (winifred Vida cantonfih 1901, Comrades Poems, Old a...

Excerpt from The Story of the Bible SocietyIN the following pages an attempt has been made to sketch the origin, growth, and progress of the British and Foreign Bible Society during the hundred years which began on the 7th March 1804, and which will be brought to a close on the 6th March next by the universal observance, among the Reformed Churches, of Bible Sunday as a day of thanksgiving for the blessing which the free circulation of the Hol...

Excerpt from The Invisible Playmate: And W. V. Her BookHE following pages are taken from a series of letters which I received a year or two ago 3 and since no one is now left to be affected by the publication of them it can be no abuse of the writer's confidence to employ them for the purpose I have in view. Only by such extracts can I convey any clear impression of the char acter of the person most concerned.About the PublisherForgotten Books...

Excerpt from In Memory of W. VI had no human fears, She seemed a thing that could not feelThe touch of early years.No motion has she now, no force, She neither hears nor sees, Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.This is HeOf Galilee, Of Nazareth, The Christ that conquers Death ...Talitha cumi! SeeThe tumult as of some sweet strifeStrained tremulous up - up -"Give her to drink!" He saith -Yea, Lord, behold ...

Excerpt from The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon PeopleIN this little book an attempt is made to trace, in outline, the history of Bible translation from its small beginnings among the earliest English people to its splendid accomplishment in the Authorized Version, to indicate the cost in human life and suffering at which it has been bought and preserved, and to suggest rather than to describe the place which the Word of God in the vernacular - how...

Excerpt from The Invisible Playmate, a Story of the Unseen: With AppendicesExultant No, dear C, - any thing but that! Glad as I am, I am morbidly apprehensive and alert to a myriad possibilities of misery. I am all quick. I feel as though I had shed my epidermis and had but true skin' for every breath and touch of mischance to play upon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at w...