Youth's Instructor and Guardian, Volume 17J. Mason., 1833 |
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... parents , or tutors , to direct their pursuits , they would do well to consult some judicious and estimable friend in the choice of books . Such would be able to point out the best works on different sub- jects , and the order in which ...
... parents , or tutors , to direct their pursuits , they would do well to consult some judicious and estimable friend in the choice of books . Such would be able to point out the best works on different sub- jects , and the order in which ...
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... parents , or tutors , to direct their pursuits , they would do well to consult some judicious and estimable friend in the choice of books . Such would be able to point out the best works on different sub- jects , and the order in which ...
... parents , or tutors , to direct their pursuits , they would do well to consult some judicious and estimable friend in the choice of books . Such would be able to point out the best works on different sub- jects , and the order in which ...
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... parent had entrusted him , with the strongest injunctions of obedience . While he was in that situation , and at times manifesting his grief by tears , the pilot who was employed to take the ship to sea , when he came on board in the ...
... parent had entrusted him , with the strongest injunctions of obedience . While he was in that situation , and at times manifesting his grief by tears , the pilot who was employed to take the ship to sea , when he came on board in the ...
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... parents , and an affectionate monitress to her young companions . Her health was first impaired by the measles ... parental instruction and minis- terial exhortation . She joined the Methodist society at the early age of twelve years ...
... parents , and an affectionate monitress to her young companions . Her health was first impaired by the measles ... parental instruction and minis- terial exhortation . She joined the Methodist society at the early age of twelve years ...
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... parent's eye ; How sacred to the best of purposes ; How pray'd for , hoped for ! But I look'd again . One short convulsive quiver of the frame , One deep , last sigh , one glassy look of death , And life's young , tender spring had ...
... parent's eye ; How sacred to the best of purposes ; How pray'd for , hoped for ! But I look'd again . One short convulsive quiver of the frame , One deep , last sigh , one glassy look of death , And life's young , tender spring had ...
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Page 36 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 108 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...
Page 67 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day : the angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Page 218 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire.
Page 83 - Man may trouble and distress me, 'Twill but drive me to Thy breast ; Life with trials hard may press me, Heaven will bring me sweeter rest! O, 'tis not in grief to harm me, While Thy love is left to me ; O, 'twere not in joy to charm me, Were that joy unmixed with Thee.
Page 241 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 64 - This is a good man ; here is nothing for me;" but when his master came to the prayer of the publican, " God be merciful to me a sinner...
Page 219 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labour until the evening.
Page 83 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow Thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my All shalt be. Perish every fond ambition, All I've sought, or hoped, or known, Yet how rich is my condition ! God and heaven are still my own.
Page 103 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.