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ALEXANDER LEIGHTON Author beautiful become BENJAMIN FRANKLIN better Bible book of Proverbs bound in cloth character Christian cloth extra companions course Crown 8vo desire duty early earth EDITION elevate Elihu Burritt evil faithful father Fcap feel female society friends full-page Illustrations gilt edges give habits hand handsomely bound happiness heart heaven History of Scotland honesty honour Horace Greeley human Illustrations and Vignette influence intellectual labour live look man's manhood manly marriage MARY COWDEN CLARKE mental mind misanthropy Molière moral mother nature ness never NIMMO'S noble ourselves parents path POETICAL POETS Portrait on Steel possess purity pursuit religion Roger Sherman Sabbath sacred seek self-education social soul spirit stand success taste temptation thing thought tion true Vignette Title-page virtue volume WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE woman words young youth
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Page 13 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Page 155 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Page 145 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 102 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard -table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Page 9 - This elegant and useful Series of Books has been specially prepared for School and College Prizes : they are, however, equally suitable for General Presentation. In selecting the works for this Series, the aim of the Publisher has been to produce books of a permanent value, interesting in...
Page 19 - LIFE IN HEAVEN. THERE, FAITH is CHANGED INTO SIGHT, AND HOPE is PASSED INTO BLISSFUL, FRUITION.
Page 130 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 100 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 155 - And there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, And burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the everlasting mountains were scattered, The perpetual hills did bow: His ways are everlasting.
Page 18 - ... describe what heaven Is, as shown by the light of reason and Scripture; and we promise the reader many charming pictures of heavenly bliss, founded upon undeniable authority, and described with the pen of a dramatist, which cannot fail to elevate the soul as well as to delight the imagination. Part Second proves, in a manner as beautiful as it is convincing, the DOCTRINE OF THE RECOGNITION OF FRIENDS IN HEAVEN, — a subject of which the author makes much, introducing many touching scenes of...