Mehayil El Hayil: Lessons for the Use of Jewish ChildrenG. Bell, 1890 - 230 pages |
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... bright and respectable girl , unknown to her careful mother , has been tempted into the common music - hall . How they must both have disliked this first step , but how soon their feelings have become blunted , until , at last , they ...
... bright and respectable girl , unknown to her careful mother , has been tempted into the common music - hall . How they must both have disliked this first step , but how soon their feelings have become blunted , until , at last , they ...
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... bright gifts from heaven , Joys are sent thee here below ; Take them readily when given , Ready , too , to let them go . One by one thy griefs shall meet thee , Do not fear an armed band ; One will fade as others reach thee , Shadows ...
... bright gifts from heaven , Joys are sent thee here below ; Take them readily when given , Ready , too , to let them go . One by one thy griefs shall meet thee , Do not fear an armed band ; One will fade as others reach thee , Shadows ...
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... bright fire on their hearths ! Some trees , as well as many shrubs and plants , give us fruit for eating and drinking , supplying us with several of our best and favourite beverages . Think of the apple , pear , plum tree , etc. , the ...
... bright fire on their hearths ! Some trees , as well as many shrubs and plants , give us fruit for eating and drinking , supplying us with several of our best and favourite beverages . Think of the apple , pear , plum tree , etc. , the ...
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... bright are Thine . When day , with farewell beam delays Among the opening clouds of even , And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into heaven . Those hues that make the sun's decline So soft , so radiant , Lord , are ...
... bright are Thine . When day , with farewell beam delays Among the opening clouds of even , And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into heaven . Those hues that make the sun's decline So soft , so radiant , Lord , are ...
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... bright light . When you have all been sitting for a long time in your heated school - room , you may not feel how close the air has become ; but , if your head begins to ache , and your eyes grow tired , you may be sure that the room ...
... bright light . When you have all been sitting for a long time in your heated school - room , you may not feel how close the air has become ; but , if your head begins to ache , and your eyes grow tired , you may be sure that the room ...
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Ahasuerus altar beautiful Bible blessed boys brothers called children of Israel Commandment companion courage David dear children death duty dwell Egypt Esther evil faith fast of Gedaliah father fear feast Feast of Tabernacles feel flock friends Gedaliah gifts girls give glory God's Haman hand happy hear heart Hebrew holy honour idolatry Israelites Jerusalem Jewish Jews Judæa Judas Judas Maccabeus keep king king's land lesson light lives Lord master Mattathias means Mezuzah Mordecai Moses Naaman neighbour ninth of Ab obedience offering Palestine parents Passover perhaps poor Praise prayer priests prophet Psalms Rehoboam remember rest Sabbath sacrifices second Temple servant sheep shepherd Shofar Solomon soul spirit story Tabernacles teach teacher tell Temple Ten Commandments Thee thing thou shalt thought to-day told tree truth unto verse voice whilst words worship yourselves
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Page 192 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?
Page 134 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Page 221 - If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.
Page 49 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill; Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Page 63 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 193 - And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
Page 44 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think ; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 120 - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
Page 102 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Page 71 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.