Noble Lives and Noble Deeds: Forty Lessons, by Various Writers, Illustrating Christian CharacterEdward Augustus Horton Unitarian Sunday-School Society, 1893 - 126 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ambition American beauty became Beethoven believe birds born Boston Bunyan called carried character cheerful Christianity Church conscience courage Darwin death died duty Emerson England enthusiasm faith famous Father Mathew fear France friends girl give GOLDEN TEXT habit happy heart Henri Regnault honesty honor human illustrate James Freeman Clarke Jesus Joan Joan of Arc John Adams John Bunyan Joseph Priestley kind Knox lesson lived Longfellow Luther mind Miss Dix moral Nature ness never noble obedience open-mindedness patience patriot perseverance Pilgrim's Progress poor preached Priestley prompt PUPILS Quaker QUESTIONS religion religious reverence Saint Saint Paul Savonarola self-respect sent sentiment soldier soul spirit Stamp Act story Sumner Sydney Smith teach TEACHERS tell Theodore Parker things Thoreau thought tion took Topic trait true truth Unitarian virtue words wrote young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 35 - That all of good the past hath had Remains to make our own time glad, Our common, daily life divine, And every land a Palestine.
Página 39 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone ; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.
Página 119 - GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.
Página 90 - In which sad progress, passing along by the rest of the army where his uncle the general was and being thirsty with excess of bleeding, he called for drink, which was presently brought him, but as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along who had eaten his last at die same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle.
Página 13 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Página 77 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's...
Página 33 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 32 - TO THE MEMORY OF HELEN WALKER, WHO DIED IN THE YEAR OF GOD, 1791. THIS HUMBLE INDIvIDUAL PRACTISED IN REAL LIFE THE vIRTUES WITH WHICH FICTION HAS INvESTED THE IMAGINARY CHARACTER OF JEANIE DEANS; REFUSING THE SLIGHTEST DEPARTURE FROM vERACITY, EvEN TO SAvE THE LIFE OF A SISTER, SHE NEvERTHELESS SHOWED HER KINDNESS AND FORTITUDE, IN RESCUING HER FROM THE SEvERITY OF THE LAW, AT THE EXPENSE OF PERSONAL EXERTIONS WHICH THE TIME RENDERED AS DIFFICULT AS THE MOTIvE WAS LAUDABLE. RESPECT THE GRAvE OF...
Página 64 - Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him out of death, and having been heard for his godly fear, though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered...