The Parent's PresentSamuel Griswold Goodrich Light & Horton, 1835 - 232 pages |
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... .............. ..J . A. JAMES 98 .................................... ................ Upon the Mountain's distant Head . ........................... ..................... 109 Christian Love .... Natural History of the Rook ... Birds.
... .............. ..J . A. JAMES 98 .................................... ................ Upon the Mountain's distant Head . ........................... ..................... 109 Christian Love .... Natural History of the Rook ... Birds.
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Samuel Griswold Goodrich. Christian Love .... Natural History of the Rook ... Birds .. To the Fringed Gentian The Mermaid's Song .... Concerning the observation of the Lord's Day .. The Sabbath .... KEEBLE 110 ..JESSE 113 ...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich. Christian Love .... Natural History of the Rook ... Birds .. To the Fringed Gentian The Mermaid's Song .... Concerning the observation of the Lord's Day .. The Sabbath .... KEEBLE 110 ..JESSE 113 ...
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... : Oh ! might we all our lineage prove , Give and forgive , do good and love , By soft endearments in kind strife Lightening the load of daily life ! NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ROOK . There is much need 112 CHRISTIAN LOVE .
... : Oh ! might we all our lineage prove , Give and forgive , do good and love , By soft endearments in kind strife Lightening the load of daily life ! NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ROOK . There is much need 112 CHRISTIAN LOVE .
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... ROOK . ' The sable tenants of five hundred years , That on the high tops of yon aged elms Pour their hoarse music on the lonely ear . ' It is impossible not to admire the manners and habits of rooks . * Even Virgil seems to have been ...
... ROOK . ' The sable tenants of five hundred years , That on the high tops of yon aged elms Pour their hoarse music on the lonely ear . ' It is impossible not to admire the manners and habits of rooks . * Even Virgil seems to have been ...
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... rooks make on returning in the evening from feeding , Et è pastu decedens agmine magno Corvorum increpuit densis exercitus alis . It is impossible to witness this circumstance without pleas- ure , or the smooth but yet rapid manner in ...
... rooks make on returning in the evening from feeding , Et è pastu decedens agmine magno Corvorum increpuit densis exercitus alis . It is impossible to witness this circumstance without pleas- ure , or the smooth but yet rapid manner in ...
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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.