The Rhode Island Educational Magazine, Volum 2Elisha Reynolds Potter Sayles & Miller, 1854 |
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Pàgina 185 - It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold : "Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, From heaven's all-gracious King!
Pàgina 132 - The rod and reproof give wisdom : but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Pàgina 180 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Pàgina 185 - Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world. Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on heavenly wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing.
Pàgina 124 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age. He received him kindly, washed his feet, provided supper, caused him to sit down; but observing that the old man...
Pàgina 124 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Pàgina 161 - I am, not wholly so, Since quickened by thy breath; 0, lead me, wheresoe'er I go, — Through this day's life or death. This day be bread and peace my lot; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.
Pàgina 161 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Pàgina 30 - ... virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Pàgina 168 - It would be hard to estimate the amount of gentleness and mercy that has made its way among us through these slight channels. Forbearance, courtesy, consideration for the poor and aged, kind treatment of animals, the love of nature, abhorrence of tyranny and brute force—many such good things have been first nourished in the child's heart by this powerful aid.