Ethics for Children [in verse]; divided into daily portions; as introductory to Ethics for Youth. By a Member of the Church of EnglandW. Pickering, 1829 - 245 pages |
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... death of parents , to whom he has looked up with fond affection , or of comrades , with whom he has sported with harmless amuse- ment , may furnish opportunities for many instructions on the V shortness and uncertainty of this life , and ...
... death of parents , to whom he has looked up with fond affection , or of comrades , with whom he has sported with harmless amuse- ment , may furnish opportunities for many instructions on the V shortness and uncertainty of this life , and ...
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... death , Oh grave where is thy victory ? Ask him who rose again from me . Oh death ! where ends thy strife ? In everlasting life . No. 17. ] CREATION . It was th ' Almighty Pow'r of God That made the mountains rise , That spread the ...
... death , Oh grave where is thy victory ? Ask him who rose again from me . Oh death ! where ends thy strife ? In everlasting life . No. 17. ] CREATION . It was th ' Almighty Pow'r of God That made the mountains rise , That spread the ...
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... joys comprized , Is falsely nam'd and no such thing , But rather death disguised . No. 42. ] HELL . [ Sunday . O ! what a dreadful place is hell ! Far worse than human tongue can tell ! There , devils roll on waves of fire , But 22.
... joys comprized , Is falsely nam'd and no such thing , But rather death disguised . No. 42. ] HELL . [ Sunday . O ! what a dreadful place is hell ! Far worse than human tongue can tell ! There , devils roll on waves of fire , But 22.
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... Death destroys not the Soul , but an ill life does . " WHAT Scenes of horror , and of dread , Await the sinner's dying bed ! Death's terrors all appear Presages of eternal night ! in sight , His sins in dreadful order rise , And fill ...
... Death destroys not the Soul , but an ill life does . " WHAT Scenes of horror , and of dread , Await the sinner's dying bed ! Death's terrors all appear Presages of eternal night ! in sight , His sins in dreadful order rise , And fill ...
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... death ? My body is of little worth , " Twould soon be mingled with the earth ; For we were made of clay , and must Again , at death , return to dust . But where my living soul would go , I do not , and I cannot know ; For none were e'er ...
... death ? My body is of little worth , " Twould soon be mingled with the earth ; For we were made of clay , and must Again , at death , return to dust . But where my living soul would go , I do not , and I cannot know ; For none were e'er ...
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Page 131 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 139 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 193 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun thy daily stage of duty run; shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice.
Page 193 - Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Page 106 - How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run ! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain ; But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best ; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Page 219 - And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
Page 11 - For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Page 197 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 10 - And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 179 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.