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Russell, Shattuck & Company, 1836 - 261 Seiten

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Seite 228 - That's empty when the moon is full ; Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice ; As if Divinity had...
Seite 220 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 74 - Teach us these blessings to improve ; Teach us to serve Thee, teach to love ; Exalt our hearts, that we may see The Giver of all good in Thee ; And be Thy word our daily food, Thy service, Lord, our highest good.
Seite 218 - I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am in a state of grate bliss, and trust these lines will find you injoyin the same blessins.
Seite 74 - HYMN. 1 FATHER of mercies ! God of peace ! Being whose bounties never cease ! While to the heavens, in grateful tones, Ascend our mingled orisons, Listen to these, the notes of praise, Which we, a happy people, raise...
Seite 203 - Few men ever carried out so fully the injunction, not to let the left hand know what the right hand did, in the quiet and steady outflow of good will and good works, as Mr.
Seite 9 - Cowards. What benefit can children be, but charges and disobedience? What's the love they render at one and twenty years? I pray die Father: when they are young, they are like bells rung backwards, nothing but noise and giddiness; and come to years once, there drops a son by th...
Seite 61 - Forgetful of the resent. inattentive to things about him, his mind was back among other scenes. A long, long reverie, — and one from which he was never to awaken ! His lips moved rapidly, though no sound was audible ; involuntary and spasmodic emotions evinced the activity of his mind. He was busily communing with the friends, and reviewing the events of his youth. Poor old man ! fifty years since seemed to him but as yesterday. One of the lone isolated survivors of another and a better race, he...
Seite 61 - One of the lone isolated survivorsof another and a better race, he had no communion with those ahout him. Dwelling upon the hardships, the privations, the dangers, the escapes, the victories of another age, his frame, infirm and old, could not support the recollection, as once, in the day of his strength, he withstood the reality! " Hark!" murmured the old man. All eyes turned towards him. He raised himself on his staff and leaned forward. His eyes beamed with supernatural animation, and contrasted...
Seite 13 - They're caught in knotted law, like nets, In which, when once they are embrangled, The more they stir, the more they're tangled ; And while their purses can dispute, There's no end of th

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