Mehayil El Hayil: Lessons for the Use of Jewish ChildrenG. Bell, 1890 - 230 pages |
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... perhaps , prove the forerunner of others drawn on similar lines . The lessons , or chapters , are from the pens of various writers ; their diction is purposely very simple , but they touch upon questions which lie at the very root of ...
... perhaps , prove the forerunner of others drawn on similar lines . The lessons , or chapters , are from the pens of various writers ; their diction is purposely very simple , but they touch upon questions which lie at the very root of ...
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... perhaps another , Sailing o'er life's solemn main , A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing , shall take heart again . Let us , then , be up and doing , With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving , still pursuing , Learn to labour and ...
... perhaps another , Sailing o'er life's solemn main , A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing , shall take heart again . Let us , then , be up and doing , With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving , still pursuing , Learn to labour and ...
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... Perhaps if we had been left to ourselves , we should not have given this a thought , and we should have arranged nothing but week - days ; but I do not think we should have led very healthy or useful lives , for , if we want to be ...
... Perhaps if we had been left to ourselves , we should not have given this a thought , and we should have arranged nothing but week - days ; but I do not think we should have led very healthy or useful lives , for , if we want to be ...
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... Perhaps you have not thought much about it , nor re- flected that men and women can be toiling with their poor bodies , and working with their weary brain , whilst the spiritual life is at its very lowest ebb . And now tell me , how do ...
... Perhaps you have not thought much about it , nor re- flected that men and women can be toiling with their poor bodies , and working with their weary brain , whilst the spiritual life is at its very lowest ebb . And now tell me , how do ...
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... perhaps , when he stood up to repeat the Sixth Com- mandment— " Thou shalt not kill " —he may have smiled in the strength of his innocence , and have thought to himself : " These words can never apply to me . " No , the murderer does ...
... perhaps , when he stood up to repeat the Sixth Com- mandment— " Thou shalt not kill " —he may have smiled in the strength of his innocence , and have thought to himself : " These words can never apply to me . " No , the murderer does ...
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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.