The Remembrancer: Or, Fragments for Leisure Hours ...Collection of essays and poems that provide children with spiritual and moral guidance. |
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... the Improvement of Juvenile Books. Silent Worship , 189 Extract , 194 Home , 197 Devotion , 199 The Mariner's Charge , 201 The Principle of Habit , 203 THE REMEMBRANCER . MORAL DISCIPLINE . AN habitual effort to viii CONTENTS .
... the Improvement of Juvenile Books. Silent Worship , 189 Extract , 194 Home , 197 Devotion , 199 The Mariner's Charge , 201 The Principle of Habit , 203 THE REMEMBRANCER . MORAL DISCIPLINE . AN habitual effort to viii CONTENTS .
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... habits . Thus , we may see a man , who has long given way to a peevish or irascible disposition , that is , to selfish acting upon his own feelings , without due regard to the feelings of others , setting himself to contend with this ...
... habits . Thus , we may see a man , who has long given way to a peevish or irascible disposition , that is , to selfish acting upon his own feelings , without due regard to the feelings of others , setting himself to contend with this ...
Page 99
... , and its numberless opportunities for self - discipline , is rapidly passing away , and a dissi- pated habit of mind hourly gaining strength , which in after life will greatly retard our progress in the THE THOUGHTS . 99.
... , and its numberless opportunities for self - discipline , is rapidly passing away , and a dissi- pated habit of mind hourly gaining strength , which in after life will greatly retard our progress in the THE THOUGHTS . 99.
Page 122
... pure morality , to question the purity of that which now obtains . When I endeavour to divest myself of the influ- ence of habit , and to contemplate a battle with those emotions which it would excite in the mind of a 122 WAR .
... pure morality , to question the purity of that which now obtains . When I endeavour to divest myself of the influ- ence of habit , and to contemplate a battle with those emotions which it would excite in the mind of a 122 WAR .
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... habit . But I believe the greatest cause of the popularity of war , and of the facility with which it is engaged in , consists in this : that an idea of glory is attached to military exploits , and of honour to the military profession ...
... habit . But I believe the greatest cause of the popularity of war , and of the facility with which it is engaged in , consists in this : that an idea of glory is attached to military exploits , and of honour to the military profession ...
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Page 30 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 66 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 30 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 31 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Page 33 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 66 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 129 - And now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : 23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Page 82 - As one who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse and enjoy their smile, And tempers as he may affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth,...
Page 182 - For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Page 32 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.