Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... bear - crabbed be- cause he is as hungry as a hungry bear . The wife understands the mood , and , while she says little to him , is careful not to have the dinner delayed . In the mean time , the children watch him cautiously , and do ...
... bear - crabbed be- cause he is as hungry as a hungry bear . The wife understands the mood , and , while she says little to him , is careful not to have the dinner delayed . In the mean time , the children watch him cautiously , and do ...
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... here and there as freely as the wind , yet not one among them carries a lighter heart than that which he is jerking along by the side of the little crutch . As I see how cheerfully he bears the burden of 26 Leffons in Life .
... here and there as freely as the wind , yet not one among them carries a lighter heart than that which he is jerking along by the side of the little crutch . As I see how cheerfully he bears the burden of 26 Leffons in Life .
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A Series of Familiar Essays Josiah Gilbert Holland. As I see how cheerfully he bears the burden of his hopeless halting , there comes back to me the story of the lame lord who sang a different sort of song - the lame lord who died at ...
A Series of Familiar Essays Josiah Gilbert Holland. As I see how cheerfully he bears the burden of his hopeless halting , there comes back to me the story of the lame lord who sang a different sort of song - the lame lord who died at ...
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... bears about an irremediable bodily deformity , or the mark of the blood of a humiliated race . I pity any human being ... bear with them a certain degree of humiliation . I pity the man who is not able to stand out in the broad sunlight ...
... bears about an irremediable bodily deformity , or the mark of the blood of a humiliated race . I pity any human being ... bear with them a certain degree of humiliation . I pity the man who is not able to stand out in the broad sunlight ...
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... bears us away can never bring us back . The question comes to us : " What is there in our present life to repay us for this loss ? " There are multitudes who can ask this question , and answer hon- estly , " Nothing . " It is sad , but ...
... bears us away can never bring us back . The question comes to us : " What is there in our present life to repay us for this loss ? " There are multitudes who can ask this question , and answer hon- estly , " Nothing . " It is sad , but ...
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Page 16 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 190 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 23 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Page 313 - My stubborn right abide ; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. To-day shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land ; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand...
Page 7 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 175 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 248 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 234 - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean.sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Page 234 - Tis the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offence Suffered or done.
Page 209 - It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.