The Parent's PresentSamuel Griswold Goodrich Light & Horton, 1835 - 232 pages |
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... perhaps , even rural gardens more flowery and blossoming , than those of this Scottish village . They lived , indeed , mostly in a town ; and in the midst of the freshness and balminess of the coun- try , they became happier and more ...
... perhaps , even rural gardens more flowery and blossoming , than those of this Scottish village . They lived , indeed , mostly in a town ; and in the midst of the freshness and balminess of the coun- try , they became happier and more ...
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... Perhaps there is no duty more generally ac- knowledged than this . Your obedience should begin early ; the younger you are , the more you need a guide and a ruler . It should be universal : ' Children obey your parents , ' said the ...
... Perhaps there is no duty more generally ac- knowledged than this . Your obedience should begin early ; the younger you are , the more you need a guide and a ruler . It should be universal : ' Children obey your parents , ' said the ...
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... Perhaps , my young friend , you may have perceived , even in the midst of your childish frolics and careless happiness , that your parents were obliged to deny themselves many indulgences , and toil hard in their respective duties , in ...
... Perhaps , my young friend , you may have perceived , even in the midst of your childish frolics and careless happiness , that your parents were obliged to deny themselves many indulgences , and toil hard in their respective duties , in ...
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... perhaps altogether opposite characters , which nature has implanted in you , that you may go far wide of what have been his favorite objects , and perhaps be the means of impairing that respectability which he , as a single individual ...
... perhaps altogether opposite characters , which nature has implanted in you , that you may go far wide of what have been his favorite objects , and perhaps be the means of impairing that respectability which he , as a single individual ...
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... perhaps , in very different anticipations ! On the contrary , should you yield respect , as far as it is in your nature , to the maxiins which your father has endeavored to impress , with what de- light does he look forward to your ...
... perhaps , in very different anticipations ! On the contrary , should you yield respect , as far as it is in your nature , to the maxiins which your father has endeavored to impress , with what de- light does he look forward to your ...
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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.