Footprints on the sands of time, biographies for young people, by L.E.B. |
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Page vi
... turn amusement into a task , if she tried to find what they desired in the records of real life . After all , it has been truly said that , Life is stranger than any fiction . Real occurrences are often , in this respect , like natural ...
... turn amusement into a task , if she tried to find what they desired in the records of real life . After all , it has been truly said that , Life is stranger than any fiction . Real occurrences are often , in this respect , like natural ...
Page vii
... turn , are travelling . Nothing can be more instructive than the history of those who have lived and learned , rejoiced and suffered , loved and lost , been tried and purified , and have passed away , one by one , into that better ...
... turn , are travelling . Nothing can be more instructive than the history of those who have lived and learned , rejoiced and suffered , loved and lost , been tried and purified , and have passed away , one by one , into that better ...
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... turn ! You shall hear ( though , perhaps , you are already fa- miliar with the tale ) how Alfred , who was to be , in time , king of all England , and who was to improve his country so greatly , first learned to do what to you seemed ...
... turn ! You shall hear ( though , perhaps , you are already fa- miliar with the tale ) how Alfred , who was to be , in time , king of all England , and who was to improve his country so greatly , first learned to do what to you seemed ...
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... turn the bread ? Whatever be your family , with such manners and sloth , what trust can be put in you hereafter ? Though you were a nobleman , you would be very glad to eat the bread which you neglect to turn ! " It was hard for the ...
... turn the bread ? Whatever be your family , with such manners and sloth , what trust can be put in you hereafter ? Though you were a nobleman , you would be very glad to eat the bread which you neglect to turn ! " It was hard for the ...
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... Bernard's cheek flushed as he sat with his hand on his mother's lap , and his keen , bright eyes fixed upon the Friar's face ; at last he could keep silence no longer , and turning quickly to 36 FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME .
... Bernard's cheek flushed as he sat with his hand on his mother's lap , and his keen , bright eyes fixed upon the Friar's face ; at last he could keep silence no longer , and turning quickly to 36 FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME .
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Page 47 - For mortified he was to that degree, A poorer than himself he would not see. True priests, he said, and preachers of the word, Were only stewards of their sovereign Lord ; Nothing was theirs, but all the public store ; Intrusted riches, to relieve the poor ; Who, should they steal, for want of his relief, He judged himself accomplice with the thief.
Page 109 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed ; and, viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 28 - History. thou the children's father, and the widow's friend. Comfort thou the poor, and shelter the weak; and with all thy might, right that which is wrong.
Page 1 - He is gone who seemed so great. — Gone ; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in state, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave Mm. But speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
Page v - Ages and climes remote to Thee impart What charms in Genius, and refines in Art ; Thee, in whose hand the keys of Science dwell, The pensive portress of her holy cell ; Whose constant vigils chase the chilling damp Oblivion steals upon her vestal-lamp.
Page iii - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 46 - He preach'd the joys of heaven and pains of hell, And warn'd the sinner with becoming zeal ; But on eternal mercy loved to dwell. He taught the Gospel rather than the Law, And forced himself to drive ; but loved to draw.
Page 109 - Him his praise, and forfeits not her own. Learning has borne such fruit in other days On all her branches. Piety has found Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer Has flow'd from lips wet with Castalian dews.