Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book: Being a Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, Founded Upon the Notes of a Home MissionaryJ.W. Moore, 1849 - 408 strán (strany) |
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Strana 16
... true happiness ? and yet old age , sour and cross , looks on , and far back into the past , with cindered passions in his heart , and he talks of poverty , the alms- house , the work - house , with their bloated overseers , feasting and ...
... true happiness ? and yet old age , sour and cross , looks on , and far back into the past , with cindered passions in his heart , and he talks of poverty , the alms- house , the work - house , with their bloated overseers , feasting and ...
Strana 17
... true faith . - The cold , the storm , and the tempest have all been forgotten , when kneeling beside the bed of straw , the missonary's prayer hath gone up on the wings of night , laden with - blessings for the poor ! The Bible , what ...
... true faith . - The cold , the storm , and the tempest have all been forgotten , when kneeling beside the bed of straw , the missonary's prayer hath gone up on the wings of night , laden with - blessings for the poor ! The Bible , what ...
Strana 52
... true Christian never goes beyond the scene of woe which is presented to his view . Idleness , dissipation , nay , crime itself , may have aided in their down- fall , and their present suffering be the result of all combined . The great ...
... true Christian never goes beyond the scene of woe which is presented to his view . Idleness , dissipation , nay , crime itself , may have aided in their down- fall , and their present suffering be the result of all combined . The great ...
Strana 58
... true , will be to us now a superfluous piece of furniture , but it belonged to my mother , and I can- not -- will not part with it ! " " But my piano , pa ! -- must it go ? " The wife sighed , the father cast his eyes toward the ...
... true , will be to us now a superfluous piece of furniture , but it belonged to my mother , and I can- not -- will not part with it ! " " But my piano , pa ! -- must it go ? " The wife sighed , the father cast his eyes toward the ...
Strana 77
... True , I was not my original self ; no man would be seen in such situations , and in the place of his nativity and former splendor , if he deemed it a disgrace . - No , I felt proud of my station : Socrates was not more so when he ...
... True , I was not my original self ; no man would be seen in such situations , and in the place of his nativity and former splendor , if he deemed it a disgrace . - No , I felt proud of my station : Socrates was not more so when he ...
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Strana 64 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Strana 25 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Strana 25 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Strana 382 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Strana 264 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Strana 25 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Strana 70 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Strana 251 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Strana 107 - Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty...
Strana 211 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...