The Parent's PresentSamuel Griswold Goodrich Light & Horton, 1835 - 232 pages |
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... Repentance The Second coming of Christ .... Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Vespers .... .PAXTON 217 MILLMAN 222 .............................. .MARTIN 224 227 229 230 231 .......................... .......................
... Repentance The Second coming of Christ .... Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Vespers .... .PAXTON 217 MILLMAN 222 .............................. .MARTIN 224 227 229 230 231 .......................... .......................
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... morning of life rejoices over your head , every thing around you puts on a smiling appearance . All nature wears a face of beauty , and is animated with a spirit of joy . You walk up and down in a new world ; you crop the unblown flower ...
... morning of life rejoices over your head , every thing around you puts on a smiling appearance . All nature wears a face of beauty , and is animated with a spirit of joy . You walk up and down in a new world ; you crop the unblown flower ...
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... morning of youth , and you are sure to gather the manna of everlasting life . God himself will bend from his throne , and teach your spirits to approach unto him . They who seek him early shall find him , and shall be guarded from evil ...
... morning of youth , and you are sure to gather the manna of everlasting life . God himself will bend from his throne , and teach your spirits to approach unto him . They who seek him early shall find him , and shall be guarded from evil ...
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... Morning and evening , too , did they kneel down with clasped hands - these lovely Twins - even at my feet , and resting on my knees ; and melodiously did they murmur together the hymns which their mother had taught them , and passages ...
... Morning and evening , too , did they kneel down with clasped hands - these lovely Twins - even at my feet , and resting on my knees ; and melodiously did they murmur together the hymns which their mother had taught them , and passages ...
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... sleep broken and full of starts . Early in the morning I was at their bedside . Henry was lying apart from his brother , looking at him with a tearful face , and his little arm laid so as to touch his bosom . THE ENGLISH TWINS . 31.
... sleep broken and full of starts . Early in the morning I was at their bedside . Henry was lying apart from his brother , looking at him with a tearful face , and his little arm laid so as to touch his bosom . THE ENGLISH TWINS . 31.
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Page 81 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 223 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 176 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 123 - TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Page 220 - Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 175 - And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every -seed his own body.
Page 21 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing House not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery Cliffs and glittering Sands, How lightly then it flashed along...
Page 224 - I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 219 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Page 55 - ... him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.