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The Bruised Reed

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Richard Sibbes


Richard Sibbes was a Puritan pastor and theologian in the 17th century. His best known work, The Bruised Reed, is based on a Scripture verse…

Chapter I

In Aunt Jane's Hero

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Elizabeth Prentiss


Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her "hero", Horace…

Great City Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

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W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

09 - On Buttons

In Observations of an Orderly

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Ward Muir


Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eye…

00 - Extract from the Preface and Introduction

In A Divine Cordial (All Things for Good)

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Thomas Watson


This book is an exposition of Romans 8:28: "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the c…