Talks to Girls by One of Themselves: On the Difficulties, Duties, and Joys of a Girl's LifeSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1894 - 154 pages |
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Page 106 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last - far off - at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Page 1 - ANCIENT HISTORY FROM THE MONUMENTS. This Series of Books is chiefly intended to illustrate the Sacred Scriptures by the results of recent Monumental Researches in the East. Fcap. 8vo., cloth boards, 2s. each. Assyria, from the Earliest. Times to the Fall of Nineveh. By the late GEORGE SMITH, Esq., of the British Museum.
Page 80 - Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.
Page 59 - ... in Thee. Well may Thy own beloved, who see In all their lot their Father's pleasure, Bear loss of all they love, save Thee, Their living, everlasting treasure. Well may Thy happy children cease From restlesS wishes prone to sin, And, in Thy own exceeding peace, Yield to Thy daily discipline. We need as much the cross we bear, As air we breathe — as light we see ; It draws us to Thy side in prayer, It binds us to our strength in Thee.
Page 53 - LORD, it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live; To love and serve Thee is my share, And this Thy grace must give.
Page 12 - EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE ; or, Researches among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life. By P. H. GOSSE, Esq., FRS A new edition, revised by Professor F. JEFFREY BELL. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 5 o TAN'S SILKEN STRING. By ANNETTE LYSTER, author of " Northwind and Sunshine,
Page 73 - A child's kiss, Set on thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad : A poor man, served by thee, shall make thee rich ; A sick man, helped by thee, shall make thee strong ; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
Page 26 - Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph ? Pray " Lead us into no such temptations, Lord...
Page 71 - WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh...
Page 1 - PERSIA, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE ARAB CONQUEST. By the late WSW VAUX, MA, FRS A New and Revised Edition, by the Rev.