The Christian Teacher, Volume 4Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1842 |
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... look for help and consolation to one of their number who remains free from such cares , the ever - ready and sympathizing Old Maid ! How many widowed brothers have with perfect confidence consigned their mother- less children to the ...
... look for help and consolation to one of their number who remains free from such cares , the ever - ready and sympathizing Old Maid ! How many widowed brothers have with perfect confidence consigned their mother- less children to the ...
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... look after our interests ; and if we are sick , to acquaint them- selves with our situation and wants , and if need be , to remove us to the hospital , where we are sure to have the best attendance , provided by the benevolence of our ...
... look after our interests ; and if we are sick , to acquaint them- selves with our situation and wants , and if need be , to remove us to the hospital , where we are sure to have the best attendance , provided by the benevolence of our ...
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... look upon the sparkling canopy of heaven ; for when murmur- ing thoughts arise within me , I love to look upon the stars - not upon the brighter ones , though they shine so unconscious of their loveliness , but rather I gaze upon some ...
... look upon the sparkling canopy of heaven ; for when murmur- ing thoughts arise within me , I love to look upon the stars - not upon the brighter ones , though they shine so unconscious of their loveliness , but rather I gaze upon some ...
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... look abroad on the beautiful earth , and realize that they can sup port themselves by their own efforts . " And many a factory girl , besides knowing this , has the sweet con- sciousness of having assisted others , and added to their ...
... look abroad on the beautiful earth , and realize that they can sup port themselves by their own efforts . " And many a factory girl , besides knowing this , has the sweet con- sciousness of having assisted others , and added to their ...
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... look back on the past , and compare the influence upon the human mind of the two forms of civilization , to which we have referred , we are at once made sensible of the striking difference between them . We may designate one the ...
... look back on the past , and compare the influence upon the human mind of the two forms of civilization , to which we have referred , we are at once made sensible of the striking difference between them . We may designate one the ...
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Page 345 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: ! The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.
Page 341 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Page 348 - But, O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 361 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 342 - Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The cock sung out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. She only said, " The day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 95 - And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
Page 361 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 315 - The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 52 - twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation...
Page 169 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.