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Pàgina 22 - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
Pàgina 205 - If, however, it should ever fall to the lot of youth to peruse these pages — let such a reader remember, that it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance; and that I would at this moment give half the reputation...
Pàgina 192 - ... the steady determined countenance of the mate. He hesitated in silence a moment, then rushing across the deck, he pitched down into the forecastle. Perhaps he was gone two minutes, when he returned, laid his hands on the ratlines, and went up with a will.
Pàgina 131 - A boy was once tempted by some of his companions to pluck ripe cherries from a tree which his father had forbidden him to touch.
Pàgina 127 - And for a season all went on well. But, at length, the young man sold a dress to a lady ; and, as he was folding it up, he observed a flaw in the silk and remarked, " Madam, I deem it my duty to tell you there is a fracture in the silk.
Pàgina 189 - I wrote in the mould, with my finger, the three initial letters of his name ; and, sowing garden cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten days after, he came running to me, and with astonishment in his countenance told me, that his name was growing in the garden. I smiled at the report, and seemed inclined to disregard it ; but he insisted on my going to see what had happened. Yes...
Pàgina 33 - I could bear with it no longer; and going to my father, I told him I did not like study, and asked for some other employment. It was opposing his wishes and he was quick in his answer, "Well John...
Pàgina 193 - I might not come down alive, and I went to commit my soul to God." " Where did you learn to pray ? " " At home ; my mother wanted me to go to the sabbath school, and my teacher urged me to pray to God to keep me ; and I do.
Pàgina 41 - From that we receive whatsoever it is that we at present do assume. He that rules without it, is not to be called God's minister, or a king. Under that we ought to live, to fight, to govern the people, and to perform all our affairs. From that alone we obtain all power, virtue, grace, salvation, and whatsoever we have of divine strength.
Pàgina 109 - The boy seemed astonished at his impudence, and, after regarding him steadily for a minute or two, obeying the instinct of his baser part, he picked up a stone lying at his feet, and was preparing to throw it, steadying himself for a good aim. The little arm was drawn backward without alarming the bird, and < bob' was < within an ace