Reverses, or Memoirs of the Fairfax Family. By the author of “Conversations on the Life of Christ,” etc. [Mrs. E. Whately]. |
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Page 78 - Counting the cost, in all t' espy Their God, in all themselves deny. O could we learn that sacrifice, What lights would all around us rise ! How would our hearts with wisdom talk Along life's dullest dreariest walk...
Page 73 - ... you are rubbing so roughly. You are impatient with yourself, because you cannot draw a straight line; you are vexed with me for having given you that door-way to copy, and angry with Mary for looking over you.
Page 72 - I think you have proved that it is not so very easy. As for the trouble, if, indeed, it is greater than you think it worth while to take for such an object, give up drawing altogether.
Page 72 - Rosalind, as she sat copying a door-way which her mother had put before her,—" dear me, I shall never learn to draw a straight line, so this must do, for I have rubbed my paper into holes.
Page 75 - Mamma, if you would tell me how to persevere in my drawing, and yet not be impatient, I should be very glad.
Page 75 - I will be so long,'—say a quarter of an hour— ' in trying to draw a straight line, or whatever it may be that you have in view; — or, 'I will draw so many straight lines.
Page 74 - But do you wish to conquer this fault, my child ?" Rosalind.—" If I could, mamma." Mrs. Fairfax.—" I do not like to hear you say,