Manners: Or, Happy Homes and Good Society All the Year RoundJ. E. Tilton, 1868 - 377 pages |
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... heart and mind as my country's photograph : it ran thus , - " Columbia , Columbia , to glory arise , The queen of the world , and the child of the skies ! Thy Genius commands thee ; with rapture behold ; While ages on ages thy splendors ...
... heart and mind as my country's photograph : it ran thus , - " Columbia , Columbia , to glory arise , The queen of the world , and the child of the skies ! Thy Genius commands thee ; with rapture behold ; While ages on ages thy splendors ...
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... heart of humanity . Take , for instance , Washington's birthday . Is there not among all nations the feeling that he is the best example of a perfect hero , and that his name deserves to be honored ? Independence Day , has it not ideas ...
... heart of humanity . Take , for instance , Washington's birthday . Is there not among all nations the feeling that he is the best example of a perfect hero , and that his name deserves to be honored ? Independence Day , has it not ideas ...
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... hearts , composed of stars ' consent , Which join together in sweet sympathy To work each other's joy and sweet content . Love's heralds should be thoughts , Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams , Driving back shadows over ...
... hearts , composed of stars ' consent , Which join together in sweet sympathy To work each other's joy and sweet content . Love's heralds should be thoughts , Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams , Driving back shadows over ...
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... hearts of wicked men such foul streams were poured forth as threatened to overwhelm the race . Patriotism , the holiest emotion of the Pagan mind , the loftest virtue of the Roman people , which had given such wonderful power to the men ...
... hearts of wicked men such foul streams were poured forth as threatened to overwhelm the race . Patriotism , the holiest emotion of the Pagan mind , the loftest virtue of the Roman people , which had given such wonderful power to the men ...
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... hearts to the hope of their heavenly home , she may send out influences that will not only make the world better and ... heart ? But did you think of the wonderful changes which that " babe , " by His words and deeds as the Christ , has ...
... hearts to the hope of their heavenly home , she may send out influences that will not only make the world better and ... heart ? But did you think of the wonderful changes which that " babe , " by His words and deeds as the Christ , has ...
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Page 307 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 76 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry ; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Page 225 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Page 76 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 331 - This day is holy unto the LORD your God ; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared : for this day is holy unto our Lord : neither be ye sorry ; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Page 27 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Page 275 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 76 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 154 - Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Page 25 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.