 | Ann Taylor - 1817 - 120 pages
...CHILD'S HYMN OF PRAISE. I THANK• the goodness and the grac« Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child. I...GOD was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r, To blocks of wood and stone. I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1819 - 118 pages
...on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I was not bom, as thousands are, Where GOD was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r, To blocks of wood and stone. I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish... | |
 | 1820 - 310 pages
...all the plea we dare to make, I was not born, as thousands are, Is u paraOn for thy mercy's sake." Where God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless prayer, „ ' . . To blocks of wood and stone. •» 1 was not born a little -'lave, - Abo^ Gfd wh<> maje hd To labour ,n the sun „ And wish 1 were... | |
 | Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1821 - 292 pages
...for Infant Minds :" " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I...pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone." But, mamma, you were giving us the description of a grotto at Gournou. Will you go on? MRS. A. —... | |
 | 1822 - 550 pages
...every one thank God that he was not born a poor little negro, or a gipsy's child, as your hymn says : I was not born, as thousands are, Where God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r To blocks of wood and stone. I was not bom a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...ENGLISH CHILD'S HYMN. 1 THANK the goodness and the grace, 'J hat on my hirth have smil'd ; And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I was not born, as thousands are, AY here God was never known : -Or faught to pray a useless prayer, To blocks of wood and stone, I 'was... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 256 pages
...for Infant Minds :" " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy .English child. i...pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone." But, mamma, you were giving us the deBELZON1 IN EGYPT. 115 scription of a grotto at Gournou. Will you... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...and propriety:— " I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have Smil'd, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child. "...God was never known, And taught to pray a useless pray'r, . To blocks of wood and stone. ^ " I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun, And... | |
 | Juvenile biography - 1824 - 170 pages
...favourite hymn-book : " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. "...God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r, To blocks of wood and stone." Mamma. The poor Hindoos, Louisa, are unacquainted with the name... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 280 pages
...grace Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. ] was not born as thousands are, Where God was never...pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone." But, mamma, you were giving us the description of a grotto at Gournou. Will you go on? MRS. A. —... | |
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THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I was not born, as thousands are, Where God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone. 
