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... fear is not often reciprocated . I could fill more than one lecture with instances which have come to my personal knowledge , in which sisters have nobly contributed their all to raise a brother to the advantages of a liberal education ...
... fear is not often reciprocated . I could fill more than one lecture with instances which have come to my personal knowledge , in which sisters have nobly contributed their all to raise a brother to the advantages of a liberal education ...
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... fears . And for myself , so many whom I have united for life have I seen soon overtaken by calamity , hoping parents bending in speechless agony over the loved and the lost , or watch- ing with breathless apprehension the fearful ...
... fears . And for myself , so many whom I have united for life have I seen soon overtaken by calamity , hoping parents bending in speechless agony over the loved and the lost , or watch- ing with breathless apprehension the fearful ...
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... fear , that social intercourse which ought to be a blessing and a privilege , little better than a curse . To one whose observation has penetrated behind the scenes , and seen the miserable struggles and subterfuges to which the tyranny ...
... fear , that social intercourse which ought to be a blessing and a privilege , little better than a curse . To one whose observation has penetrated behind the scenes , and seen the miserable struggles and subterfuges to which the tyranny ...
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... fear of falling into neglect , which becomes watchfully suspicious of any signs of it . The generous feelings are too apt to contract , and the openness and freedom of earlier years give place to reserve . All these evils find their ...
... fear of falling into neglect , which becomes watchfully suspicious of any signs of it . The generous feelings are too apt to contract , and the openness and freedom of earlier years give place to reserve . All these evils find their ...
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... fears shall be realized . Among the thoughts , which send a pang into a mother's heart , as she gazes upon her babe , is the slender hold by which she pos- sesses her precious treasure . She knows that one half of these beautiful buds ...
... fears shall be realized . Among the thoughts , which send a pang into a mother's heart , as she gazes upon her babe , is the slender hold by which she pos- sesses her precious treasure . She knows that one half of these beautiful buds ...
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Page 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 202 - The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever. "The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
Page 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 191 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Page 190 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 184 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — »The foe! They come! they come!« And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering...
Page 181 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the...
Page 190 - All heaven and earth are still— though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Page 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.