The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend, Volumes 6-7David H. Ela, 1845 - Child rearing |
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... Night , · · Early Piety ,. 35 Evening , 108 Thirlwall's History of Greece , The Boston Almanac , God , the chief Good , ·· 77 Voyages round the World , .. Jesus appears to the Disciples , .... 10 My Mother's Grave , .. 52 MUSIC , 84 11 ...
... Night , · · Early Piety ,. 35 Evening , 108 Thirlwall's History of Greece , The Boston Almanac , God , the chief Good , ·· 77 Voyages round the World , .. Jesus appears to the Disciples , .... 10 My Mother's Grave , .. 52 MUSIC , 84 11 ...
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... night to т day . 2 Hope and trust ! Hope and trust ! Child of sorrow - child of dust ! Place not here thy fond desire , But to heavenly things aspire ! See on high Joys that ne'er will fade or die ! 4 3 Pray and fight ! Pray and fight ...
... night to т day . 2 Hope and trust ! Hope and trust ! Child of sorrow - child of dust ! Place not here thy fond desire , But to heavenly things aspire ! See on high Joys that ne'er will fade or die ! 4 3 Pray and fight ! Pray and fight ...
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... Night gradually approached . Then arose the angel of Sleep from his mossy couch , and scattered , with light hand , unseen seeds of slumber . The evening wind bore them to the dwellings of the weary husbandmen , and sweet sleep fell ...
... Night gradually approached . Then arose the angel of Sleep from his mossy couch , and scattered , with light hand , unseen seeds of slumber . The evening wind bore them to the dwellings of the weary husbandmen , and sweet sleep fell ...
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... night . I If these hints induce only one person to take better care of the teeth , I shall be more than rewarded for the trouble of writing . am continually pained to see young people losing their teeth merely for the want of a few ...
... night . I If these hints induce only one person to take better care of the teeth , I shall be more than rewarded for the trouble of writing . am continually pained to see young people losing their teeth merely for the want of a few ...
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... night with my dear friend , Mrs. W. Many an hour did I sit re- ceiving instruction from herself and husband , as they conversed of their experience in the changes of this mortal life . Frequently we found our hearts filled almost to ...
... night with my dear friend , Mrs. W. Many an hour did I sit re- ceiving instruction from herself and husband , as they conversed of their experience in the changes of this mortal life . Frequently we found our hearts filled almost to ...
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Page 72 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Page 106 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 72 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Page 72 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 7 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 91 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Page 117 - THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from his hollow hand, And hung his bow upon thine awful front ; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's .. sake, The sound of many waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Page 4 - Not there! - Where, then, is he? The form I used to see Was but the raiment that he used to wear. The grave, that now doth press Upon that cast-off dress, Is but his wardrobe locked; - he is not there!
Page 91 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 89 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.