Recollections of childhood; or Sally, the faithful nurse, by PrimogenitaHatchard and son, Seeley, Rivingtons, 1840 - 125 pages |
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Page 123 - Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb; 'and even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Page 29 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 8 - Be ever gentle with the children God has given you ; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, " Be not bitter against them.
Page 114 - Dew-drops at day-spring on a seraph's locks, Roses that bathe about the well of life, Young Loves, young Hopes, dancing on Morning's cheek Gems leaping in the coronet of Love ! So beautiful, so full of life, they seemed As made entire of beams of angels
Page 105 - Author if godliness alone were the exception — if it were not 'profitable for the life that now is, as well as for that which is to come' !" "They make that work the other way, don't they?
Page 8 - Adversity may wither them, sickness may fade, a cold world may frown on them, but amidst all let memory carry them back to a home where the law of kindness reigned, where the mother's reproving eye was moistened with a tear, and the father frowned "more in sorrow...
Page 1 - ... in that state of life in which it has pleased God to place them...
Page 25 - holy Name for all His servants departed this life in His faith and fear...
Page 12 - t is a Christian dieth : Up, where blessed saints rejoice, Ransomed now, the spirit flieth: High in Heaven's own light she dwelleth , Full the song of triumph swelleth : Freed from earth, and earthly failing, Lift for her no voice of wailing.
Page 76 - But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: 44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.