Leisure Hours with Good Authors; and Musings on the Book of NatureMitchell and Hughes, 1877 - 258 páginas |
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... reason , is liable to bring the child to shame and the parent to sorrow ; and hence we frequently observe , in every grade of society , that the maternal love is not returned by filial affection , and that dis- obedience and slight is ...
... reason , is liable to bring the child to shame and the parent to sorrow ; and hence we frequently observe , in every grade of society , that the maternal love is not returned by filial affection , and that dis- obedience and slight is ...
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... reason opens . The child will see and reflect on his parent's intentions ; and this will have great influence on his mind . This influence may , indeed , be afterwards counteracted , but that only proves that contrary currents arise and ...
... reason opens . The child will see and reflect on his parent's intentions ; and this will have great influence on his mind . This influence may , indeed , be afterwards counteracted , but that only proves that contrary currents arise and ...
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... reason of the thing . " Excess of laxity is another danger . To wink at a child's follies , and encourage its waywardness while it is very young , generally has the effect of making it the parent's scourge in riper years . I do not re ...
... reason of the thing . " Excess of laxity is another danger . To wink at a child's follies , and encourage its waywardness while it is very young , generally has the effect of making it the parent's scourge in riper years . I do not re ...
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... reason would surprise us were it divested of its veil . Every insect , whether it flies or creeps , is a little animal , composed either of several rings which shrink from , or approach one another in a common membrane that collects ...
... reason would surprise us were it divested of its veil . Every insect , whether it flies or creeps , is a little animal , composed either of several rings which shrink from , or approach one another in a common membrane that collects ...
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... reason , it exerts itself with force and vivacity through every stage of life ; and we might receive all the benefits this happy disposition is able to produce , did we employ it upon objects equally qualified to engage the mind by ...
... reason , it exerts itself with force and vivacity through every stage of life ; and we might receive all the benefits this happy disposition is able to produce , did we employ it upon objects equally qualified to engage the mind by ...
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Página 4 - 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 129 - That, from the inmost darkness of the place, Comes, scarcely felt; — the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh, moist ground, are all instinct with thee.
Página 157 - No, the bugle sounds no more, And the twanging bow no more ; Silent is the ivory shrill Past the heath and up the hill ; There is no mid-forest laugh, Where lone Echo gives the half To some wight, amaz'd to hear Jesting, deep in forest drear.
Página 130 - E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun.
Página 157 - And their minutes buried all Under the down-trodden pall Of the leaves of many years : Many times have winter's shears, Frozen north, and chilling east, Sounded tempests to the feast Of the forest's whispering fleeces, Since men knew nor rent nor leases. No ! the bugle sounds no more...
Página 227 - ... would, in my opinion, .do him very little honour; for sure it is much easier, -much less the subject of admiration, to paint a man with a nose, or any other feature, of a preposterous size, or to expose him in some absurd or monstrous attitude, than to express the affections of men on canvas. It...
Página 47 - I had to cross, in my post-chaise, the long and dreary heath of Bagshot; then, at the end of it, to mount a hill called Hungry Hill ; and from that hill I knew that I should look down into the beautiful and fertile vale of Farnham. My heart fluttered with impatience, mixed with a sort of fear, to see all the scenes of my childhood, for I had learned before, the death of my father and mother.
Página 194 - Casas, he was conspicuous for his stately and commanding person, which, with his countenance rendered venerable by his gray hairs, gave him the august appearance of a senator of Rome. A modest smile lighted up his features, showing that he enjoyed the state and glory in which he came ; and certainly nothing could be more deeply moving to a mind inflamed by noble ambition, and conscious of having greatly deserved, than these testimonials of the admiration and gratitude of a nation, or rather of a...
Página 14 - How many, hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! "I will rise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, "And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Página 157 - For he left the merry tale Messenger for spicy ale. Gone the merry morris din, Gone the song of Gamelyn, Gone the tough-belted outlaw Idling in the