Canadian Quarterly Review and Family Magazine, Volume 2,Edição 2

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1865

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Página 383 - Give, therefore, thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ?' And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Página 367 - She told me shame would never betide, With truth for my creed and God for my guide ; She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer, As I knelt beside that old arm-chair.
Página 367 - tis past ! but I gaze on it now With quivering breath and throbbing brow : 'Twas there she nursed me, 'twas there she died ; And memory flows with lava tide. Say it is folly, and deem me weak, While the scalding drops start down my cheek ; But I love it, I love it, and cannot tear My soul from a mother's old arm-chair.
Página 371 - It moves, for all that!" was his answering tone, For he knew, like the Earth, he could go it alone! When Kepler, with intellect piercing afar, Discovered the laws of each planet and star, And doctors, who ought to have lauded his name, Derided his learning, and blackened his fame, "I can wait!" he replied, "till the truth you shall own"; For he felt in his heart he could go it alone!
Página 367 - I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair ? I've treasured it long as a sainted prize, I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs ; Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart : Not a tie will break, not a link will start Would ye learn the spell ? a mother sat there, And a sacred thing is that old arm-chair.
Página 371 - In battle or business, whatever the game, In law or in love, it is ever the same ; In the struggle for power, or scramble for pelf, Let this be your motto—
Página 371 - There's something, no doubt, in the hand you may hold, Health, family, culture, wit, beauty, and gold The fortunate owner may fairly regard As, each in its way, a most excellent card ; Yet the game may be lost, with all these for your own, Unless you Ve the courage to go it alone...
Página 374 - WEAR A SMILE. — Which will you do, SMILE and make others happy, or be crabbed and make every...
Página 374 - There is no joy so great as that which springs from a kind act or a pleasant deed, and you may feel it at night, when you rest...
Página 383 - A hope so great, and so divine, May trials well endure ; And purge the soul from sense and sin, As Christ Himself is pure.

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