Jack the Chimney Sweeper: And Other Stories for Children |
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Page 212 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Page 184 - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
Page 161 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 111 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 128 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Page 80 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Page 116 - Lo, such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God. By cool Siloam's shady rill The lily must decay ; The rose that blooms beneath the hill Must shortly fade away.
Page 186 - The mother in her office holds the key of the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin of character, and makes the being who would be a savage but for her gentle cares, a Christian man! Then crown her queen of the world.
Page 98 - OH, weep not for the dead !. . Rather, oh rather give the tear To those that darkly linger here. When all besides are fled ; Weep for the spirit withering ' In its cold cheerless sorrowing, Weep for the young and lovely one That ruin darkly revels on ; . But never be a tear-drop shed For them, the pure enfranchised dead. Oh, weep not for the dead...
Page 167 - She led me first to God ; Her words and prayers were my young spirit's dew. For, when she used to leave The fireside, every eve, I knew it was for prayer that she withdrew. That dew, that...