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... Young .. The Spells of Home .. Generous Bequest .. Opening of Letters . To an April Flower . The Scottish Minister's Jubilee . The Lion . A Scottish Sabbath My Native Land .. Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre .. Magnanimous Legatee The ...
... Young .. The Spells of Home .. Generous Bequest .. Opening of Letters . To an April Flower . The Scottish Minister's Jubilee . The Lion . A Scottish Sabbath My Native Land .. Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre .. Magnanimous Legatee The ...
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... young persons , newly arrived in this city of God , to remember the end for which they were sent into it , and to devote to their Maker's service the first and the best of their days ? When they are in the prime of youth and of health ...
... young persons , newly arrived in this city of God , to remember the end for which they were sent into it , and to devote to their Maker's service the first and the best of their days ? When they are in the prime of youth and of health ...
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... young friend ! to remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth ; have the courage to be good be- times . Beware of falling into the usual snare of the inex- perienced ; beware of thinking that you have time enough to be religious , and ...
... young friend ! to remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth ; have the courage to be good be- times . Beware of falling into the usual snare of the inex- perienced ; beware of thinking that you have time enough to be religious , and ...
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... young friend to make you miserable before the time . God forbid that I should anticipate the evil day , unless I could arm you against it . Now remember your Creator , consecrate to him the early period of your days , and the light of ...
... young friend to make you miserable before the time . God forbid that I should anticipate the evil day , unless I could arm you against it . Now remember your Creator , consecrate to him the early period of your days , and the light of ...
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... young friend , it will add much to the pleasures of reflection , if you have it in your power to recall to mind , that your early days were not only innocent , but useful , and ... young ! When I was young ! YOUTH AND AGE . 21 Youth and.
... young friend , it will add much to the pleasures of reflection , if you have it in your power to recall to mind , that your early days were not only innocent , but useful , and ... young ! When I was young ! YOUTH AND AGE . 21 Youth and.
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Page 81 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 223 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 176 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 123 - TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Page 220 - Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 175 - And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every -seed his own body.
Page 21 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing House not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery Cliffs and glittering Sands, How lightly then it flashed along...
Page 224 - I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 219 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Page 55 - ... him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.