I've Been a Gipsying: Or, Rambles Among Our Gipsies and Their Children in Their Tents and Vans

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T.F. Unwin, 1883 - 355 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 253 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Strana 38 - Abide with me ; fast falls the even-tide ; The darkness deepens ; Lord, with me abide ; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away : Change and decay in all around I see ; 0 Thou Who changest not, abide with me.
Strana 208 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Strana 193 - What did your godfathers and godmothers then for you ? A. They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Strana 193 - Who gave you this Name ? Answer. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Strana 362 - No pains have been spared to make this an exact replica as regards paper, size, print, and binding. 4th Edition, Sheep, imitation of Original Binding 05° Paper boards, Old Style, uncut edges o 5 o Imitation Morocco ... ... ... o 6 o '
Strana 164 - Let my sins be all forgiven ! Bless the friends I love so well ! Take me when I die to heaven, Happy there with Thee to dwell.
Strana 362 - There is more humour in the volume than in half-a-dozen ordinary pantomimes." — Spectator. " The preface is really more interesting than the ' Prince of the Hundred Soups, ' and that — as we hope our readers will find out for themselves — is saying a good deal." — Academy. " For myself, I can say that it had upon me the appetising effect of that dish in Horace which ' replaced the sated guest upon his elbow ; ' for though, when I took it up, I was utterly weary and dazed with the number of...

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