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Pride and Principle: Or the Captain of Elvedon School (1869) H. B. Paull,LIGHTNING SOURCE INC No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 11 - His steps are not upon thy paths — thy fields Are not a spoil for him — thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray, And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Page 7 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Page 12 - We therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body when the sea shall give up her dead...
Page 100 - Singing in the morning air. Little lark, do tell me why You are singing in the sky? Other little birds at rest, Have not yet begun to sing ; Every one is in its nest, With its head behind its wing: Little lark, then, tell me why You're so early in the sky?
Page 76 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Page 20 - But come; for thou, be sure, shalt give account To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep This place inviolable, and these from harm.
Page 10 - Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee: Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, — what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou ; Unchangeable, save...
Page 114 - John v. 4. Would you be able to withstand temptations, it is " the shield of faith, by which you will be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked,
Page 11 - ... a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay. Then dashest him again to earth: — there let him lay.
Page 126 - And remember that the eye of God is ever upon you, and that He is well pleased with all your little efforts to serve Him.