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Side 12
... interest the ground he has already passed over . The sunny hills and green vales still smile upon him ; the rugged pathways , the fearful precipices , the deep rivers , are lessened to insignificance in the distance ; the road seems ...
... interest the ground he has already passed over . The sunny hills and green vales still smile upon him ; the rugged pathways , the fearful precipices , the deep rivers , are lessened to insignificance in the distance ; the road seems ...
Side 26
... interest a part of the works of Xenophon , Homer , and Plato , and parts of the Greek New Testament . She read French with great ease . During the last few months of her life , she acquired some knowledge of German , and was greatly ...
... interest a part of the works of Xenophon , Homer , and Plato , and parts of the Greek New Testament . She read French with great ease . During the last few months of her life , she acquired some knowledge of German , and was greatly ...
Side 32
... interests of eternity , demands all your energies . 2. Learn your true condition in life , and enter actively into its duties . Regular employment will give you a healthy tone of mind , as well as invigorate the body . Early rising and ...
... interests of eternity , demands all your energies . 2. Learn your true condition in life , and enter actively into its duties . Regular employment will give you a healthy tone of mind , as well as invigorate the body . Early rising and ...
Side 42
... interest . Specimens of moral excellence , equal to any the world has ever pro- duced , adorn its annals , and the benign light of liberty and religion encircle it with a mild halo of glory . The French introduced that kind of ...
... interest . Specimens of moral excellence , equal to any the world has ever pro- duced , adorn its annals , and the benign light of liberty and religion encircle it with a mild halo of glory . The French introduced that kind of ...
Side 56
... interest- ing in elegant literature , besides the writings of the splen- did Alfieri , and the well - known letters of Ganganelli . The poet , Silvio Pellico , -whose long and cruel confinement at Spielberg has been made known to the ...
... interest- ing in elegant literature , besides the writings of the splen- did Alfieri , and the well - known letters of Ganganelli . The poet , Silvio Pellico , -whose long and cruel confinement at Spielberg has been made known to the ...
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Side 214 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Side 146 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Side 152 - When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother ; Woman, behold thy son ! Then saith he to the disciple ; Behold thy Mother ! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own iiome.
Side 155 - Things vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire they know not what. And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Side 231 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Side 214 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Side 204 - All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all 'the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Side 16 - The primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more.
Side 125 - My lord, it is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion.
Side 31 - Each flower of slender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.