International Library of Masterpieces, Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, Volume 13Harry Thurston Peck International Bibliophile Society, 1901 - Literature |
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Page 4615
... , " But now my soul is awed , And I must meditate upon The goodness of the Lord ; By permission of Lee and Shepard . And nothing merely temporal ought To interrupt my holy thought 4615 SAMUEL WALTER FOSS The Fate of Pious.
... , " But now my soul is awed , And I must meditate upon The goodness of the Lord ; By permission of Lee and Shepard . And nothing merely temporal ought To interrupt my holy thought 4615 SAMUEL WALTER FOSS The Fate of Pious.
Page 4616
... soul , On wings of hope elate , In glad expectancy flew up To Peter's golden gate . " Now let your gate wide open fly ; Come , hasten , Peter ! Here am I. " " I'm sorry , Pious Dan , " said he , " That time will not allow ; But you must ...
... soul , On wings of hope elate , In glad expectancy flew up To Peter's golden gate . " Now let your gate wide open fly ; Come , hasten , Peter ! Here am I. " " I'm sorry , Pious Dan , " said he , " That time will not allow ; But you must ...
Page 4618
... soul devoid of guilt , Begin her famous crazy quilt , And told her helpmeet , Goodman True , She'd finish in a month or two ; And Goodman True , as good men do , Believed his good wife , Prudence True . And when he found his supper late ...
... soul devoid of guilt , Begin her famous crazy quilt , And told her helpmeet , Goodman True , She'd finish in a month or two ; And Goodman True , as good men do , Believed his good wife , Prudence True . And when he found his supper late ...
Page 4619
... soul wilt , Then die at last of crazy quilt . Long years passed on , and Widow True Toiled on , as all good widows do , And in her calm seclusion curled Heard not the noises of the world . The echoes of the Concord fight , The battle ...
... soul wilt , Then die at last of crazy quilt . Long years passed on , and Widow True Toiled on , as all good widows do , And in her calm seclusion curled Heard not the noises of the world . The echoes of the Concord fight , The battle ...
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... souls forgiven An ' then he struck a streak uv hope Thet burst from prison - bars uv sin , an ' stormed the gates uv heaven ; The mornin ' stars they sung together , no soul wuz left alone , We felt the universe wuz safe , an ' God wuz ...
... souls forgiven An ' then he struck a streak uv hope Thet burst from prison - bars uv sin , an ' stormed the gates uv heaven ; The mornin ' stars they sung together , no soul wuz left alone , We felt the universe wuz safe , an ' God wuz ...
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Page 4706 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
Page 4700 - Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Page 4702 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says I never saw an oft-removed Tree, Nor yet an oft-removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
Page 4688 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 4689 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Page 4699 - I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times?
Page 4763 - From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.
Page 4700 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is alwayt bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep ? forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 4704 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may...
Page 4708 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too match for his whistle. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.