The Blade and the Ear: a Book for Young MenW. P. Nimmo, 1865 - 224 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... influences . which make or mar the future man . The horticul- turist is pleased to see his trees clad in the bright livery of a copious blossom ; but his chief anxiety is , that the tree grows right for fruit . When the blossom of a ...
... influences . which make or mar the future man . The horticul- turist is pleased to see his trees clad in the bright livery of a copious blossom ; but his chief anxiety is , that the tree grows right for fruit . When the blossom of a ...
Pagina 10
... influence in society , we sometimes imagine it is wielded chiefly by those in middle life . But such is not the law of this magic power . The child moulds others to his own will and his own way . The boy , especially , leads off in very ...
... influence in society , we sometimes imagine it is wielded chiefly by those in middle life . But such is not the law of this magic power . The child moulds others to his own will and his own way . The boy , especially , leads off in very ...
Pagina 22
... influence in this respect , for good or for evil , of illimit- able extent . Their honour , and their peace and happi- ness , are bound up in our particular dispositions and in our deportment , not only toward them personally , but ...
... influence in this respect , for good or for evil , of illimit- able extent . Their honour , and their peace and happi- ness , are bound up in our particular dispositions and in our deportment , not only toward them personally , but ...
Pagina 26
... influences of a virtuous home . Not a few , too , owe their escape from scepticism and infidelity to its sacred influence . John Randolph once said , " I once took the French side in politics ; and I should have been a French atheist if ...
... influences of a virtuous home . Not a few , too , owe their escape from scepticism and infidelity to its sacred influence . John Randolph once said , " I once took the French side in politics ; and I should have been a French atheist if ...
Pagina 27
Blade. the world has produced , have usually owed much to the influence of a good mother . We may often see her stamp on the brow of the scholar , giving vigour and persistence to the historian , genius to the essayist , and inspiration ...
Blade. the world has produced , have usually owed much to the influence of a good mother . We may often see her stamp on the brow of the scholar , giving vigour and persistence to the historian , genius to the essayist , and inspiration ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 13 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Pagina 155 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Pagina 145 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Pagina 102 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard -table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Pagina 9 - This elegant and useful Series of Books has been specially prepared for School and College Prizes : they are, however, equally suitable for General Presentation. In selecting the works for this Series, the aim of the Publisher has been to produce books of a permanent value, interesting in...
Pagina 19 - LIFE IN HEAVEN. THERE, FAITH is CHANGED INTO SIGHT, AND HOPE is PASSED INTO BLISSFUL, FRUITION.
Pagina 130 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Pagina 100 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Pagina 155 - And there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, And burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the everlasting mountains were scattered, The perpetual hills did bow: His ways are everlasting.
Pagina 18 - ... describe what heaven Is, as shown by the light of reason and Scripture; and we promise the reader many charming pictures of heavenly bliss, founded upon undeniable authority, and described with the pen of a dramatist, which cannot fail to elevate the soul as well as to delight the imagination. Part Second proves, in a manner as beautiful as it is convincing, the DOCTRINE OF THE RECOGNITION OF FRIENDS IN HEAVEN, — a subject of which the author makes much, introducing many touching scenes of...