Pneumanee; or, The fairy of the nineteenth century, Volume 2 |
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... never to be tired of repeating it , and never felt be- fore the comfort of not being ashamed of it . His chart was invaluable to him ; for when home would rush into his head , with all its peace and all its blessings , he flew to his ...
... never to be tired of repeating it , and never felt be- fore the comfort of not being ashamed of it . His chart was invaluable to him ; for when home would rush into his head , with all its peace and all its blessings , he flew to his ...
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... never should run into it ; they said , your successor would like rather to add to a house to make it larger , than to have half of it to pull down , because it was too big for com- fort . It was better to have a house too small for a ...
... never should run into it ; they said , your successor would like rather to add to a house to make it larger , than to have half of it to pull down , because it was too big for com- fort . It was better to have a house too small for a ...
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... never will let us read ; it bends the neck , she says , injures the sight , and by bending the head , injures both the lungs and the digestive powers of the stomach ; so I only catch a few ⚫lines now and then when my hair is dressing ...
... never will let us read ; it bends the neck , she says , injures the sight , and by bending the head , injures both the lungs and the digestive powers of the stomach ; so I only catch a few ⚫lines now and then when my hair is dressing ...
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... never find me obstinate or ungrateful ; and under such endearing correction . as yours , I must be one of the happiest and best creatures in the world . " - " Alas ! my dear Fanny , " said Pneu- manee , " we must not be too sanguine ...
... never find me obstinate or ungrateful ; and under such endearing correction . as yours , I must be one of the happiest and best creatures in the world . " - " Alas ! my dear Fanny , " said Pneu- manee , " we must not be too sanguine ...
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... never pursue us into those little cor- ners , much less will his judgment select them for punishment , without the general context of our existence , by which faults may be sometimes found to have grown out of virtues , and many of our ...
... never pursue us into those little cor- ners , much less will his judgment select them for punishment , without the general context of our existence , by which faults may be sometimes found to have grown out of virtues , and many of our ...
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Page 181 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 182 - With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Page 182 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 12 - His all-searching eye will assuredly never pursue us into those little corners of our lives, much less will His justice select them for punishment without the general context of our existence, by which faults may be sometimes found to have grown out of virtues and very many of our heaviest offences to have been grafted by human imperfection upon the best and kindest of our affections.
Page 11 - God have mercy upon us ! — instead of standing before him in judgment with the hopes and consolations of Christians, we must call upon the mountains to cover us ; for which of us can present, for Omniscient examination, a pure, unspotted, and faultless course ? But I humbly expect that the benevolent Author of our being will judge us as I have been pointing out for your example. Holding up the great volume of our lives in his hands, and regarding the general scope of them ; — if he discovers...
Page 4 - He was wont to say that wisdom lay in the heart, and not in the head ; and that it was not the want of knowledge, but the perverseness of the will, that filled men's actions with folly and their lives with .disorder.
Page 12 - Holding up the great volume of our lives in his hands, and regarding the general scope of them; if He discovers benevolence, charity, and good-will to man beating in the heart, where He alone can look; if He finds that our conduct, though often forced out of the path by our infirmities, has been in general well directed; his allsearching...