Ethics for Children [in verse]; divided into daily portions; as introductory to Ethics for Youth. By a Member of the Church of EnglandW. Pickering, 1829 - 245 pages |
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... thoughts will quickly turn toward himself , and he will feel an anxiety to avoid the displeasure , and to conciliate the favour of that Gracious Being , who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity . The death of parents , to whom he ...
... thoughts will quickly turn toward himself , and he will feel an anxiety to avoid the displeasure , and to conciliate the favour of that Gracious Being , who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity . The death of parents , to whom he ...
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... thought bestow ; Do I thus act the Christian part ? Has Jesus acted so ? Just the reverse ; his generous Did kind compassion move ; breast When sinners curs'd , the Saviour blest , And injuries paid with love . No. 26. ] FORGIVENESS ...
... thought bestow ; Do I thus act the Christian part ? Has Jesus acted so ? Just the reverse ; his generous Did kind compassion move ; breast When sinners curs'd , the Saviour blest , And injuries paid with love . No. 26. ] FORGIVENESS ...
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... thoughts and tongues to strife ; To Jesus let us lift our eyes , Bright pattern of the Christian's life . Oh ! how benevolent and kind ! How mild - how ready to forgive ! Be this the temper of our mind , And these the truths by which we ...
... thoughts and tongues to strife ; To Jesus let us lift our eyes , Bright pattern of the Christian's life . Oh ! how benevolent and kind ! How mild - how ready to forgive ! Be this the temper of our mind , And these the truths by which we ...
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... THOUGHT . [ Thursday . THROUGH groves sequestered , dark and still , Low vales and mossy cells among , In silent paths , the careless rill , With languid murmur steals along . Awhile it plays with circling sweep , And ling'ring leaves ...
... THOUGHT . [ Thursday . THROUGH groves sequestered , dark and still , Low vales and mossy cells among , In silent paths , the careless rill , With languid murmur steals along . Awhile it plays with circling sweep , And ling'ring leaves ...
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... thoughts with prudence guide , Checking ill - humour , anger , pride ? Did I my lips from aught refrain That might my fellow - creatures pain ? Did I with cheerful patience bear The little ills we all must share ? No. 37. ] CANDOUR ...
... thoughts with prudence guide , Checking ill - humour , anger , pride ? Did I my lips from aught refrain That might my fellow - creatures pain ? Did I with cheerful patience bear The little ills we all must share ? No. 37. ] CANDOUR ...
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Page 131 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 139 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 193 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun thy daily stage of duty run; shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice.
Page 193 - Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Page 106 - How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run ! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain ; But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best ; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Page 219 - And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
Page 11 - For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Page 197 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 10 - And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 179 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.