 | Cyrus Mann - 1834 - 268 pages
...schools. Don't you pity them 1 Then thank God that he did not make you a heathen. Learn the hymn-^' I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled,' &c. Learn the history of Samuel, in the Bible, who served God when he was a little child. You must... | |
 | 1846 - 356 pages
...to bring the gospel to this land. I am sure you, and all my fellow scholars will join me in saying : I thank the goodness and the grace. That on my birth have smiled ; And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. A LITTLE BOY'S SPEECH AT A JUVENILE... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...you hear of such things, I dare say one of your favourite hymns comes to your mind, and you say — " I thank the goodness and the grace, That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child." Well, that is right : we ought to be thankful... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 418 pages
...appearance of her proteges, as they sung, with great enthusiasm, Jane Taylor's hymn, commencing, — ' I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child." All the little rogues were quite familiar... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 448 pages
...appearance of her proteges, as they sung, with. great enthusiasm, Jane Taylor's hymn, commencing, — ' I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child." All the little rogues were quite familiar... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 406 pages
...appearance of her proteges, as they sung, with great enthusiasm, Jane Taylor's hymn, commencing, — ' I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child." All the little rogues were quite familiar... | |
 | George Eliel Sargent, George Etell Sargent - 1856 - 204 pages
...everything she could fancy, nor to complain of living in the dull country. She will rather say, ' ' I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child." It is sometimes worth while to compare... | |
 | 1857 - 770 pages
...children, their reflections would resemble those of the second writer far rather than those of the first. " I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child. " I was not bom a little slave, To labour... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1857 - 508 pages
...«L , these lat - ter £U 4 days £ A hap - j>y, Chris - tian child. JI -» t» g__ •* 1367. CM 1. I THANK the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made mo, in thcso latter days, A happy, Christian child. 2. I was not born as thousands are, Where... | |
 | Edwards Amasa Park, Lowell Mason, Austin Phelps - 1858 - 356 pages
...O Holy Ghost, to thee, While ceaseless ages run ! A Child's Gratitude for Christian Birth. C, M, 1 I THANK the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these latter days, A happy, Christian child. 1075 PARENTS AND CHILDREN. 1081-1083.... | |
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I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child. 
