The Monthly Repository & Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volum 1F. S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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Pàgina 18
... habit of body ; but this was at first very disagreeable to him . He often wanted to live again in his old manner ; and did indeed indulge himself in a freedom of diet sometimes , without the knowledge of his physicians ; but , as he ...
... habit of body ; but this was at first very disagreeable to him . He often wanted to live again in his old manner ; and did indeed indulge himself in a freedom of diet sometimes , without the knowledge of his physicians ; but , as he ...
Pàgina 22
... habit and example ! Happy are those who see none but good ones ! Cradled in the effemi- nacy of cities , abandoned to timorous and ignorant nurses , most children tremble like a leaf at the creak- ing of a door , they are ready to faint ...
... habit and example ! Happy are those who see none but good ones ! Cradled in the effemi- nacy of cities , abandoned to timorous and ignorant nurses , most children tremble like a leaf at the creak- ing of a door , they are ready to faint ...
Pàgina 27
... habits of severe study and patient investigation , he would have been at this moment the very reverse of all he is — an unregarded and indolent sojourner on the great theatre of human action . Talk of genius as you may - speak of it as ...
... habits of severe study and patient investigation , he would have been at this moment the very reverse of all he is — an unregarded and indolent sojourner on the great theatre of human action . Talk of genius as you may - speak of it as ...
Pàgina 32
... the anticipation that it will be difficult to get children to read them . But there is too deep knowledge of human nature , too intimate ac- quaintance with the habits and mental associations , and feelings 32 Interesting Extracts .
... the anticipation that it will be difficult to get children to read them . But there is too deep knowledge of human nature , too intimate ac- quaintance with the habits and mental associations , and feelings 32 Interesting Extracts .
Pàgina 33
quaintance with the habits and mental associations , and feelings of children ; and above all , too pure , religious truth , in this book , to leave it devoid either of interest or effect . We do not doubt - we regret that it should he ...
quaintance with the habits and mental associations , and feelings of children ; and above all , too pure , religious truth , in this book , to leave it devoid either of interest or effect . We do not doubt - we regret that it should he ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 340 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pàgina 237 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth ; both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Pàgina 132 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Pàgina 320 - How manifold are thy works, O Lord ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Pàgina 8 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Pàgina 236 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Pàgina 72 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Pàgina 168 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Pàgina 271 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Pàgina 271 - Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man!