The Mother's Assistant, Young Lady's Friend and Family ManualStore & Pratt, 1851 |
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... bright flame is kept burning during the night , for the benefit of mariners . Our own coast is studded with these lights . In erecting them , two objects are to be secured ; namely , sufficient brilliancy , and the means of easily ...
... bright flame is kept burning during the night , for the benefit of mariners . Our own coast is studded with these lights . In erecting them , two objects are to be secured ; namely , sufficient brilliancy , and the means of easily ...
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... bright , more pure , Stronger stern trials to endure , None is more purged of earthly leaven , More like the love of highest heaven , Than that which binds in bond how blest A daughter to a father's breast . DE RANCE . SARA MAY , OR HOW ...
... bright , more pure , Stronger stern trials to endure , None is more purged of earthly leaven , More like the love of highest heaven , Than that which binds in bond how blest A daughter to a father's breast . DE RANCE . SARA MAY , OR HOW ...
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... bright , intelligent- looking girl of seventeen or thereabouts , possibly eighteen ; not handsome , certainly , as heroines are handsome , but hand- some with youth , health , and intelligence . Sara May had just graduated from one of ...
... bright , intelligent- looking girl of seventeen or thereabouts , possibly eighteen ; not handsome , certainly , as heroines are handsome , but hand- some with youth , health , and intelligence . Sara May had just graduated from one of ...
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... bright , Thou leapest onward through the foliage green ; The apple boughs among , How gayly hast thou sung , Then bathed thy breast in the day's golden sheen . Thy home is in the tree , O being blithe and free ! The quivering leaflets ...
... bright , Thou leapest onward through the foliage green ; The apple boughs among , How gayly hast thou sung , Then bathed thy breast in the day's golden sheen . Thy home is in the tree , O being blithe and free ! The quivering leaflets ...
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... bright , From yonder fields of light , A messenger from that far world unseen ? From some lone gleaming star , Didst thou descend afar , To wake unwonted thoughts my soul within ? A spotless cloud I see , Above the apple tree ; Was that ...
... bright , From yonder fields of light , A messenger from that far world unseen ? From some lone gleaming star , Didst thou descend afar , To wake unwonted thoughts my soul within ? A spotless cloud I see , Above the apple tree ; Was that ...
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Popular passages
Page 143 - Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 6 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Page 64 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 13 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it.
Page 189 - And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him...
Page 187 - For home he had not: home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polish'd friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.
Page 118 - Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude.
Page 187 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page 15 - How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips ! Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sips.