Fireside tales for the young, Հատոր 1 |
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... taken a great deal of pains to make them under- stand how one sin persisted in , will inevitably lead to another ; after which , she opened the Bible , read to them the history of Ananias and Sapphira , and desired them to repeat the ...
... taken a great deal of pains to make them under- stand how one sin persisted in , will inevitably lead to another ; after which , she opened the Bible , read to them the history of Ananias and Sapphira , and desired them to repeat the ...
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... from us , for having taken our plums . While , therefore , you shrink with horror from the sin itself , you must remember there are excuses , which it sometimes behoves us to make , on the part of those who B 2 MARY LESLEY . 5.
... from us , for having taken our plums . While , therefore , you shrink with horror from the sin itself , you must remember there are excuses , which it sometimes behoves us to make , on the part of those who B 2 MARY LESLEY . 5.
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... bring sorrow and care , Which poverty seldom knows . When first taken from the hands of his nurse , Henry IV . , Prince of Navarre , was committed to the care of Suzanne de Bourbon Busset , baroness de Mios- 18 FIRESIDE TALES .
... bring sorrow and care , Which poverty seldom knows . When first taken from the hands of his nurse , Henry IV . , Prince of Navarre , was committed to the care of Suzanne de Bourbon Busset , baroness de Mios- 18 FIRESIDE TALES .
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... taken full possession of the mind of the ambitious boy , than it began to help him wonderfully through all the mortification and rough treatment usually belonging to the life of a schoolboy . They may treat me as familiarly as they like ...
... taken full possession of the mind of the ambitious boy , than it began to help him wonderfully through all the mortification and rough treatment usually belonging to the life of a schoolboy . They may treat me as familiarly as they like ...
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... taken under the care of a grandfather , in whose house he lived , and whose kind- ness of heart had induced him also to adopt another young relative , whose circumstances were different . Ralph and his cousin Mary , therefore , lived ...
... taken under the care of a grandfather , in whose house he lived , and whose kind- ness of heart had induced him also to adopt another young relative , whose circumstances were different . Ralph and his cousin Mary , therefore , lived ...
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Էջ 39 - I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow for a friend's breakfast: doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it? for Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice: but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure...
Էջ 250 - The surface of this plain was uneven, and strewed over with large stones and volcanic rocks, and in the centre of it was the great crater, at the distance of a mile and a half from the precipice on which we were standing. Our guides led us round towards the north end of the ridge, in order to find a place by which we might descend to the plain below.
Էջ 44 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam. And sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs ; some leaping securely in the- cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat, these and other sights had so fully possessed my soul with content, that I thought, as the poet hath happily expressed it, I was for that time lifted above earth ; And possess'd joys not promised...
Էջ 44 - There I sat viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots and ' pebble-stones, which broke their waves and turned them into foam. And sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs; some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Էջ 125 - To this disappointment we owed our having it in our power to revisit the Sandwich Islands, and to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed, in many respects, to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean.
Էջ 121 - ... supply as the Society islanders did, who actually planted them in the ground, hoping they would grow like potatoes, or any other vegetable, yet such is the value they still set on them, that •the fishermen would rather receive a wrought nail, to make of it a fishhook according to their own taste, than the best English-made fish-hook we could give them.
Էջ 184 - God, and begin betimes to repose yourself upon him, and therein shall you find true and lasting riches, and endless comfort; for the rest, when you have travailed and wearied your thoughts over all sorts of worldly cogitations, you shall but sit down by sorrow in the end.
Էջ 184 - To what friend to direct thee I know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial; and I plainly perceive that my death was determined from the first day.
Էջ 44 - I sat down when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree near to the brow of that primrose-hill...
Էջ 39 - Take good hede," sayeth this honest little tretyse, "that in going about your disportes ye open no man's gates but that ye shet them again. Also ye shall not use this forsayd...