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... seems to spread a soft , fresh green over the soul . Does not the whole heart blossom thick with plants of hope , sparkling with perpetual dew - drops ? What a loss , had we passed through the world without tasting this purest , most ...
... seems to spread a soft , fresh green over the soul . Does not the whole heart blossom thick with plants of hope , sparkling with perpetual dew - drops ? What a loss , had we passed through the world without tasting this purest , most ...
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... seems fully conceded , that the vital interests of our country may be aided by the zeal of mothers . Exposed as it is , to the influx of untutored foreign- ers , often unfit for its institutions , or adverse to their spirit , it seems ...
... seems fully conceded , that the vital interests of our country may be aided by the zeal of mothers . Exposed as it is , to the influx of untutored foreign- ers , often unfit for its institutions , or adverse to their spirit , it seems ...
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... seem but as the filmy line of the spider , scarcely clasping the spray , trembling at every breeze , may prove links of tempered steel , binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe . A glorious aggregate will at last be formed ...
... seem but as the filmy line of the spider , scarcely clasping the spray , trembling at every breeze , may prove links of tempered steel , binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe . A glorious aggregate will at last be formed ...
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... not overlook them , while laying the foundation for a future super- structure of virtue . Among them , she will surely be assiduous to foster delicacy . This seems to me to be natural to young children , as far 4 FIRST LESSONS . 41.
... not overlook them , while laying the foundation for a future super- structure of virtue . Among them , she will surely be assiduous to foster delicacy . This seems to me to be natural to young children , as far 4 FIRST LESSONS . 41.
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... seem to us , like the filmy line of the spider ; in age , like the fly caught in its toils , we struggle in vain . " Habit , if not resisted , " says St. Augus- tine , " becomes necessity . " The physical force of habit , is thus ...
... seem to us , like the filmy line of the spider ; in age , like the fly caught in its toils , we struggle in vain . " Habit , if not resisted , " says St. Augus- tine , " becomes necessity . " The physical force of habit , is thus ...
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Page 66 - For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Page 232 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I ant the Lord.
Page 251 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 196 - Her cares," says her biographer, " extended .even to the animal creation ; while over her domestics she presided with the dispositions of a parent, providing for the improvement of their minds, the decency of their behaviour, and the propriety of their manners. She would have the skill and contrivance of every artificer used in her house, employed for the ease of her servants, and that they might suffer no inconvenience or hardship. Besides providing for the order, harmony, and peace of her family,...
Page 168 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Page 251 - I am come amongst you as you see at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Page 293 - nay, it is my Saviour's shine. Now farewell world; welcome heaven. The day-star from on high hath visited my heart. Oh speak it when I am gone, and preach it at my funeral; God dealeth familiarly with man. I feel his mercy ; I see his majesty ; whether in the body, or out of the body I cannot tell, God knoweth ; but I see things that are unutterable.
Page 180 - Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection.
Page 61 - Our time is like our money. When we change a guinea, the shillings escape as things of small account ; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eye.