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The Two Christmas Celebrations Ad I And Mdccclv

Auhtor: Theodore Parker

Language: english
Published: 1856

Genres:

fiction,  religious,  short stories
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Review by M. Erb, March 2007


Rating: (*****)
Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S.
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Excerpts from the Book 'The Two Christmas Celebrations Ad I And Mdccclv':

... the aristocracy, and most of the more cultivated people in the great towns. 3. The old Hebrew,- the written and spoken language of the learned, of ...
... wiser and better,- and so the old forms of religion are always getting passed by and the religious doctrines and ceremonies of a rude age cannot satisfy ...
... the people about him. He broke away from the old established doctrines and forms. He was a come-outer from the Hebrew church. He told men that religion ...
... God and to man. But no doubt some of them knew he was right, and hated him all the more for that very reason. When they talked in their libraries, they ...
... in the regular legal form,- they did not occupy more than twelve hours of time,- but were done in the same wicked way that evil men also used in Boston ...
... of Jesus, his followers went from town to town, from country to country, preaching Christ and him crucified they taught that the world would soon end, ...
... which it is erroneously supposed took place on the 25th of December, in the yearone. They sing psalms, and preach sermons, and offer prayers, and make ...
... for her. Tabby opened her yellow eyes suddenly, and erected hersmellers, but finding it was only the wind and not a mouse that made the noise, she stretched ...
... by generous breeding, wiped off from them the stain of their illicit birth. He never spoke of poor Amelia but he kept a little locket in one end of ...
... hairs tied together with a blue silken thread. Aunt Kindly had never been married yet once in her life, also, the right man seemed to offer, and the ...
... nor what she thought of it but she repeated it to herself three or four times,- Her children rise up and call her blessed. As she was taking ...
... come out of the school-house last week, I felt a little reproach, that, while looking after their fathers and mothers, I had not done more for the children. I ...
... night for thinking over the details of the plan. Before morning it all lay clear in her mind. Monday afternoon she went round to talk with the neighbors ...
... of different classes of society. It is bad enough on Sundays, when each man can sit buttoned up in his own pew but a festival for all sorts ...
... a widower, about fifty years old, with his house full of sons and daughters. He liked it. Patty, his oldest daughter, could help. There were two barrels ...
... Sally Bright wore the medal she won the last quarter at the Union School. Sip Tidy's six children were there and all the girls and boys from the poor-house. ...
... blue eyes? Bobbie Nilkinson, was the answer. It went right to the Colonel's heart. It is Christmas, said he and the dear Jesus himself said, 'Suffer ...
... Look there Colonel Stearns and John Wilkinson have not spoken for years. Now it is all made up. Both have forgotten that little strip of Beaver-gray ...
... may try and excuse slavery just as much as he likes. I know what all that means. He don't catch old birds with chaff. Uncle Nathan went about the ...
... of bread and milk she had finished, and had taken the remains of it to Tippy and Dippy. Marian did not care very much for bread and milk, but the ...