The Christian Teacher, Volume 4Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1842 |
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... means of lectures , are remarkably well attended . The price of tickets to twenty - five lectures is 1 dol . for males , 50 cents for females . They have social meetings termed Improvement Circles , in which com- munications ...
... means of lectures , are remarkably well attended . The price of tickets to twenty - five lectures is 1 dol . for males , 50 cents for females . They have social meetings termed Improvement Circles , in which com- munications ...
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... mean by this , that there was but one young female who did no work . The word lady has now a very indefinite signification . It means sometimes merely a fe- male ; sometimes a female distinguished from her sex by elegance of mind and ...
... mean by this , that there was but one young female who did no work . The word lady has now a very indefinite signification . It means sometimes merely a fe- male ; sometimes a female distinguished from her sex by elegance of mind and ...
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... means of information , especially in the way of public lectures . The time of lecturing is appointed to suit the convenience of the operatives ; and sad indeed would be the picture of our Lyceums , Institutes , and scientific lecture ...
... means of information , especially in the way of public lectures . The time of lecturing is appointed to suit the convenience of the operatives ; and sad indeed would be the picture of our Lyceums , Institutes , and scientific lecture ...
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... means of improvement to the Lowell operatives , and a proof of the state of the mental cultivation of a flourishing manufacturing town . We do not fear its interfering with more standard reading , and its remarks will be perused by many ...
... means of improvement to the Lowell operatives , and a proof of the state of the mental cultivation of a flourishing manufacturing town . We do not fear its interfering with more standard reading , and its remarks will be perused by many ...
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... means of rapidly disseminating intelligence , which seem to secure the permanent ascendancy of civilization , and guarantee the perpetuity of future progress . If then we look back on the past , and compare the influence upon the human ...
... means of rapidly disseminating intelligence , which seem to secure the permanent ascendancy of civilization , and guarantee the perpetuity of future progress . If then we look back on the past , and compare the influence upon the human ...
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Page 345 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: ! The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.
Page 341 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Page 348 - But, O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 361 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 342 - Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The cock sung out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. She only said, " The day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 95 - And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
Page 361 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 315 - The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 52 - twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation...
Page 169 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.