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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... hours ? Who taught the little ant the way Her narrow hole to bore ; And through the pleasant summer's day To gather up her store ? ' Twas God , who taught them all , the way , And gave their little skill ; And teaches children if they ...
... hours ? Who taught the little ant the way Her narrow hole to bore ; And through the pleasant summer's day To gather up her store ? ' Twas God , who taught them all , the way , And gave their little skill ; And teaches children if they ...
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... hour , Fresh beauties will assume . But sweeter that young heart , Where faith and love , and peace , Blossom and Bloom in ev'ry part , With sweet and varied grace . O may Life's early Spring , And Morning , ere they flee , Youth's Dew ...
... hour , Fresh beauties will assume . But sweeter that young heart , Where faith and love , and peace , Blossom and Bloom in ev'ry part , With sweet and varied grace . O may Life's early Spring , And Morning , ere they flee , Youth's Dew ...
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... hours you used to attend the House of God , and employ the two hours of each service in prayer and reading the scriptures . Judge Hale observes , that he found the bu- siness of the week prosper , as he had observed the sabbath . ' No ...
... hours you used to attend the House of God , and employ the two hours of each service in prayer and reading the scriptures . Judge Hale observes , that he found the bu- siness of the week prosper , as he had observed the sabbath . ' No ...
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... hour , O ! long retard ; Be theirs each joy that gilds the past , And heaven our mutual home at last . No. 94. ] ELI'S SONS . [ Wednesday . " They hearkened not unto the voice of their father . " How just and holy is the Lord , I Sam ...
... hour , O ! long retard ; Be theirs each joy that gilds the past , And heaven our mutual home at last . No. 94. ] ELI'S SONS . [ Wednesday . " They hearkened not unto the voice of their father . " How just and holy is the Lord , I Sam ...
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... hour , My place and duty seek to know . ' Tis good that I should bear the yoke , Nor let my youthful passions reign ; For thus an ancient prophet spoke , Nor shall I find the saying vain . Thus early may I learn to bow , To my creator's ...
... hour , My place and duty seek to know . ' Tis good that I should bear the yoke , Nor let my youthful passions reign ; For thus an ancient prophet spoke , Nor shall I find the saying vain . Thus early may I learn to bow , To my creator's ...
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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.