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One day's weaving

Mary Louise Parmelee Peebles · 1868 · Scanned text

56,427 words · about 3 h 57 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1868, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/54046567); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Mary Louise Parmelee Peebles
Language
English
Published
1868
Length
56,427 words · about 3 h 57 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Preface under 1 min
  3. Chapter XIV. The Magnet Stories about 3 h 56 min
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Front matter

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September, 1891.

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Preface

To show the ugliness of Pride, and the value and beauty of Love, — the “ Charity that suffereth long, and is kind,” — is the aim of the volume which the author now lays before the young weavers, busy at the looms of life.

May it be of some small service in helping them to discern the Enemy’s threads, and to choose the right shuttles, that their webs may be woven after the fair pattern, which alone can find acceptance at the beautiful gates of the King’s palace.

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