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Adam Clarke age of reason application Archbishop Whately asso attained attention awaken Bible lesson Cain and Abel called catechetical character child Christ Christian conceptions conscience corporal punishment crystal globe desire doctrine duty earnest educational elder classes elder scholars emotions exercise explain exposition facts feeling given habits heart Hence ideas illustration important infant class influence instruction instructor intellectual interrogation Jericho knowledge leading Lord manner means memory mental mind moral narrative nature never obedience object perception picture pleasure practical prayer preparation present lecture principles publican pupils question ragged school reason remarked remembered render rest rules sabbath Saxon scene Scrip Scripture class Scripture truth sensations sense simple skilful Socrates speak Sunday school teacher taught teaching tell thing Thou thought tical tion words young children youthful Zaccheus
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Page 127 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge, in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears, And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him.
Page 112 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
Page 189 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon...
Page 35 - The tear down childhood's cheek that flows Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Page 37 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar. And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Page 45 - Make me to walk in thy commands; 'Tis a delightful road; Nor let my head, or heart, or hands, Offend against my God.
Page 144 - He liveth long who liveth well ! All other life is short and vain ; He liveth longest who can tell Of living most for heavenly gain.
Page 34 - They made us many soldiers. Chatham, still Consulting England's happiness at home, Secured it by an unforgiving frown, If any wrong'd her. Wolfe, where'er he fought, Put so much of his heart into his act, That his example had a magnet's force, And all were swift to follow whom all loved.
Page 5 - ... sensation, till it grows up to the use of reason ; how its infant faculties began to work, and how they brought forth and ripened all the various notions, opinions, and sentiments, which we find in ourselves when we come to be capable of reflection : this would be a treasure of natural history, which would probably give more light into the human faculties, than all the systems of philosophers about them since the beginning of the world.
Page 42 - Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would reach ; It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech.