The Monthly Repository & Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 1F. S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... never been mothers themselves ; who best know the minds , the wants , the hearts of children ; and whose tender- ness and gentleness gracefully bend to the ignorance of children , and assimilate most easily and happily with their 1 ...
... never been mothers themselves ; who best know the minds , the wants , the hearts of children ; and whose tender- ness and gentleness gracefully bend to the ignorance of children , and assimilate most easily and happily with their 1 ...
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... never appeared at the the- atre , but when Euripides contended with the tragedians , for the tragedies of this poet were so full of fine moral- ity , that they were exceedingly pleasing to that philo- sopher . He repaired to the court ...
... never appeared at the the- atre , but when Euripides contended with the tragedians , for the tragedies of this poet were so full of fine moral- ity , that they were exceedingly pleasing to that philo- sopher . He repaired to the court ...
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... never - failing curse . The greatest pleasures of sense turn disgustful by excess . The gratification of desire is sometimes the worst thing that can befall us . It was a maxim of Socrates , " that we ought to eat and drink to live ...
... never - failing curse . The greatest pleasures of sense turn disgustful by excess . The gratification of desire is sometimes the worst thing that can befall us . It was a maxim of Socrates , " that we ought to eat and drink to live ...
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told him , that there was one method still remaining , which had never been tried , but which , if they could but prevail with him to use with perseverance , might free him , in time , from all his complaints ; and that was a temperate ...
told him , that there was one method still remaining , which had never been tried , but which , if they could but prevail with him to use with perseverance , might free him , in time , from all his complaints ; and that was a temperate ...
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... never caught cold , he never knew fevers , or any of that crowd of diseases springing from gluttony and idleness . A se- vere and hardy education is always the best , it alone forms superior men ; of this fact the history of all ages ...
... never caught cold , he never knew fevers , or any of that crowd of diseases springing from gluttony and idleness . A se- vere and hardy education is always the best , it alone forms superior men ; of this fact the history of all ages ...
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Page 340 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 237 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth ; both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 132 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 320 - How manifold are thy works, O Lord ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Page 8 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Page 236 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 72 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Page 168 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 271 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 271 - Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man!