The Remembrancer: Or, Fragments for Leisure Hours ...T. Ellwood Chapman, 1841 - 216 páginas Collection of essays and poems that provide children with spiritual and moral guidance. |
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... attention of moral beings . The pursuits of such a man may have nothing in them that is referable either to im- pure desire or malevolent affection . They may be the acquisition of wealth - the grasp after power- the love of distinction ...
... attention of moral beings . The pursuits of such a man may have nothing in them that is referable either to im- pure desire or malevolent affection . They may be the acquisition of wealth - the grasp after power- the love of distinction ...
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... this virtue . The relation of a simple incident will show , that peace and happiness to ourselves and others are often the result of attention to little things . A young friend of the writer called one cold day to visit BENEVOLENCE . 43.
... this virtue . The relation of a simple incident will show , that peace and happiness to ourselves and others are often the result of attention to little things . A young friend of the writer called one cold day to visit BENEVOLENCE . 43.
Página 45
... a cheerful one , and benevo- lence , or attention to the feelings of others , be alike the act , the motive , and , with peace , the rich reward . M. J. 5 FENELON , ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY . THE following anecdotes are. BENEVOLENCE . 45.
... a cheerful one , and benevo- lence , or attention to the feelings of others , be alike the act , the motive , and , with peace , the rich reward . M. J. 5 FENELON , ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY . THE following anecdotes are. BENEVOLENCE . 45.
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... attention was drawn to a beautiful flower at the bottom , where the water was nearly a fathom in depth . It grew on a stalk about three - eighths of an inch in diameter , and about ten inches in length , was in shape like an inverted ...
... attention was drawn to a beautiful flower at the bottom , where the water was nearly a fathom in depth . It grew on a stalk about three - eighths of an inch in diameter , and about ten inches in length , was in shape like an inverted ...
Página 156
... attention , and affection to them . But beware of novels in verse . Poets are more dangerous than prose writers , when their principles are bad ; for when a good poet makes his good poetry the vehicle of his bad sen- timents , he does ...
... attention , and affection to them . But beware of novels in verse . Poets are more dangerous than prose writers , when their principles are bad ; for when a good poet makes his good poetry the vehicle of his bad sen- timents , he does ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
action affections beauty beneath benevolence bless bravery breath bright bright Eyes brow call that mind calm Cambray cerned character Christian clouds dark DAYSTARS death deep Deity desire Divine duty earth Edom ELLWOOD CHAPMAN eternal fame fear Fenelon flowers gift glory golden sun habits hand happiness harmony hath heaven heavenly holy hope hour human humble HYMN impression influence inquire John Woolman Juvenile Books Lake Superior light live Lord mental mighty mind free moral constitution moral feelings mountain mourn nature Neath ness never o'er ocean passed passions peace perfect Petra Pictured Rocks Poems praise presence principle pure purify rest rising rock seek self-love shade shalt shine silent worship smile solemn soul spirit sublime sweet tears tempest temple thee thine things Thou art thou hast thoughts tion truth virtue voice waves wild WILLIAM PENN wing wonders
Passagens conhecidas
Página 30 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Página 66 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Página 30 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 31 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Página 33 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 66 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 129 - And now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : 23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Página 82 - As one who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse and enjoy their smile, And tempers as he may affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth,...
Página 182 - For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Página 32 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.