The English emigrants; or, Troubles on both sides of the Atlantic, by Paul Betneys

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1859 - 306 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 123 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Pàgina 301 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Pàgina 175 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Pàgina 68 - JERUSALEM, my happy home ! •'* Name ever dear to me ! When shall my labours have an end, In joy, and peace, and thee?
Pàgina 148 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her — she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Pàgina 185 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Pàgina 270 - Father, while I stray Far from my home on life's rough way, Oh teach me from my heart to say,
Pàgina 134 - Of the various powers and faculties we possess, there are some which nature seems both to have planted and reared, so as to have left nothing to human industry. Such are the powers which we have in common with the brutes, and which are necessary to the preservation of the individual, or the continuance of the kind. There are other powers, of which nature hath only planted the seeds in our minds, but hath left the rearing of them to human culture.
Pàgina 257 - Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit Nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection? Dwells in white and black the same.
Pàgina 193 - I shall now speak of it as a moral virtue. The first may make a man easy in himself and agreeable to others, but implies no merit in him that is possessed of it. A man is no more to...

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