Elementary Moral Lessons: For Schools and FamiliesH. Cowperthwait & Company, 1856 - 253 pages |
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afterwards angry APPLICATION OF RIGHT ashamed attention blessing brother Captain child companions conduct conscience deacon dollars drayman duty ELIZABETH FRY expect eyes father feel felt forgiveness friends gave girl give greater sufferer habits hand happy Hartly heard heart honest honor Honved injured Jemson John Banvard John Pounds kind knew labor last narrative LESSON lived looked manner merchant mind moral mother motives neat neighbor never once pain parents passed persons pleasure poor boy poor woman practise preceding narrative probably profane promise Quaker QUESTIONS FOR ILLUSTRATION QUESTIONS FOR SPECIAL received replied respect RICHARD BAXTER Richard Grant RIGHT PRINCIPLES sailor scholar self-denial sick sister soldier sometimes soon sorrow steal strangers Suppose swear tears thing Thomas Wright thought told took treat true courage unkind VARIED APPLICATION wish words wrong young
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Page 121 - That the troops may have an opportunity of attending public worship, as well as to take some rest after the great fatigue they have gone through, the General in future excuses them from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders.
Page 27 - Than all the battles ever fought, Or oaths that men have uttered. Friendship oft would longer last, And quarrels be prevented, If little words were let go past, Forgiven, not resented. Foolish things are frowns and sneers, For angry thoughts reveal them...
Page 86 - To others' failings as your own ; If you're the first a fault to see, Be not the first to make it known. For life is but a passing day, No lip...
Page 111 - Tis the fainting- poor, Whose eye with want is dim, Whom hunger sends from door to door — Go thou and succour him.
Page 35 - William,' cried the first voice: • come along with us, if you don't want to be called a coward as long as you live. Don't you see we're all waiting ?' I leaned forward to catch a view of the children, and saw William standing with one foot advanced, and his hand firmly clenched, in the midst of the group : he was a fine subject for a painter at that moment. His flushed brow, flashing eye, compressed lip, and changing cheek, all told how the word coward was rankling in his breast.
Page 218 - The last boy who received one was young Manners, who, three years ago, rescued the blind girl from drowning. The Principal then said that, with the permission of the company, he would relate a short story: "Not long since, some scholars were flying a kite in the street, just as a poor boy on horseback rode by on his way to the mill.
Page 113 - The old man dropped his knife and fork, leaned forward with a stern intensity of expression ; his black eye, sparkling with indignation, was fixed on me. " John," said he, " you do not know what you are doing. You are serving the devil, boy. Do you...
Page 113 - I got to rum, and become again the drunken, contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution.
Page 70 - Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, saith he, 'If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
Page 206 - The pleasure of rousing their souls to bear pain, and of agreeing with God silently, when nobody knows what is in their hearts. There is a great pleasure in the exercise of the body, — in making the heart beat, and the limbs glow, in a run by the sea-side, or a game in the playground ; but this is nothing to the pleasure there is in exercising one's soul in bearing pain, — in finding one's heart glow with the hope that one is pleasing God.