Choice Selections: Being about Six Hundred Extracts from More Than Two Hundred Different Authors, Designed for Lessons in Recitation, Reading, Morals, and LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1890 - 216 pages |
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... angels were sent down from heaven to execute the divine command , and one was appointed to conduct an empire and the other to sweep a street , they would feel no inclination to change employ ments . - Newton . 33. Sow truth , if thou ...
... angels were sent down from heaven to execute the divine command , and one was appointed to conduct an empire and the other to sweep a street , they would feel no inclination to change employ ments . - Newton . 33. Sow truth , if thou ...
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... Angels will hasten the story to tell . - Anon . 75. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends , however humble , spurn not one ; The daisy , by the shadow that it casts , Protects the lingering dew - drop from the sun ...
... Angels will hasten the story to tell . - Anon . 75. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends , however humble , spurn not one ; The daisy , by the shadow that it casts , Protects the lingering dew - drop from the sun ...
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... angels from Thy awful throne . Each mercy sent when sorrows lower , Each blessing of the winged hour , All we enjoy and all we love , Bring lessons with them from above . - Bryant . 265 . Man is as much made for education as the earth ...
... angels from Thy awful throne . Each mercy sent when sorrows lower , Each blessing of the winged hour , All we enjoy and all we love , Bring lessons with them from above . - Bryant . 265 . Man is as much made for education as the earth ...
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... angel flower That blossoms from the sod Behold the master - touches , —— The handiwork of God .-- H . C. Preuss . 268. I love in spring to search out the sunny slopes by a southern wall , where the reflected sun does double duty to the ...
... angel flower That blossoms from the sod Behold the master - touches , —— The handiwork of God .-- H . C. Preuss . 268. I love in spring to search out the sunny slopes by a southern wall , where the reflected sun does double duty to the ...
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... angels from the temple of our hearts , are for ever wandering about unsatisfied ? Why is it that the stars , which hold their festival around the midnight throne , are set above the grasp of our limited faculties , for ever mocking us ...
... angels from the temple of our hearts , are for ever wandering about unsatisfied ? Why is it that the stars , which hold their festival around the midnight throne , are set above the grasp of our limited faculties , for ever mocking us ...
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