Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 19-20William Chambers, Robert Chambers Lippincott, 1869 |
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... poor market - woman was in great distress in consequence of two boys having rudely overturned her basket of eggs , he ran home for his small box of savings , and poured the whole contents into her lap . On another occasion , observing ...
... poor market - woman was in great distress in consequence of two boys having rudely overturned her basket of eggs , he ran home for his small box of savings , and poured the whole contents into her lap . On another occasion , observing ...
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... poor and ignorant , was quite the thing he had been waiting for . His hour of usefulness had come . In a short time he was installed in the cure of the Ban de la Roche , and , like a primitive apostle setting out for the wilderness ...
... poor and ignorant , was quite the thing he had been waiting for . His hour of usefulness had come . In a short time he was installed in the cure of the Ban de la Roche , and , like a primitive apostle setting out for the wilderness ...
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... poor flock when they had the misfortune to break any of their utensils . They were without ready money to purchase them , and they were obliged to lose much time in going to a distance to obtain them . To put an end to this evil , he ...
... poor flock when they had the misfortune to break any of their utensils . They were without ready money to purchase them , and they were obliged to lose much time in going to a distance to obtain them . To put an end to this evil , he ...
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... poor Oberlin lay awake half the night pondering on the difficulties of a situation which his conscientiousness alone rendered difficult . At length he resolved to be guided by the readiness with which Madeleine would listen to his ...
... poor Oberlin lay awake half the night pondering on the difficulties of a situation which his conscientiousness alone rendered difficult . At length he resolved to be guided by the readiness with which Madeleine would listen to his ...
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... poor popula- tion ; from his own income , which was never above 1000 francs ( £ 40 ) annually , and already burdened with many claims , he could also derive little assistance . There were no landed gentry to whom he could apply ; but ...
... poor popula- tion ; from his own income , which was never above 1000 francs ( £ 40 ) annually , and already burdened with many claims , he could also derive little assistance . There were no landed gentry to whom he could apply ; but ...
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Página 15 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Página 15 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 15 - DAFFODILS FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Página 18 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves, And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves.
Página 5 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Página 17 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Página 31 - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Página 6 - Whose state can neither flatterers fe'ed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; Who God doth late and early pray, More...
Página 25 - My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find...
Página 2 - With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.