Juvenile biography; some account of the childhood of persons who were eminent in maturer years for piety, genius, and learning |
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... whole of his time in learning Latin and Greek ? Mamma . Oh , no : although he ap- plied with so much assiduity to his les- sons , while he was about them , he was as fond of play as you are ; and his fa- ther , who was not only the ...
... whole of his time in learning Latin and Greek ? Mamma . Oh , no : although he ap- plied with so much assiduity to his les- sons , while he was about them , he was as fond of play as you are ; and his fa- ther , who was not only the ...
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... whole lives to this purpose ; and one of these I will particularly men- tion , because I think some account of his early life will interest you . But before I begin my history , I wish to know whether Louisa has a clear idea of the ...
... whole lives to this purpose ; and one of these I will particularly men- tion , because I think some account of his early life will interest you . But before I begin my history , I wish to know whether Louisa has a clear idea of the ...
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... whole life in visiting the prisoner , the sick , and the destitute , not only in his own country , but throughout Europe . Louisa , Thank you , mamma , I think I shall like this account very much . Will you please to tell us where and ...
... whole life in visiting the prisoner , the sick , and the destitute , not only in his own country , but throughout Europe . Louisa , Thank you , mamma , I think I shall like this account very much . Will you please to tell us where and ...
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... whole of his library ; for his father , who thought he had better be minding his sheep , than learning Latin and Greek , did not supply him with the means of procuring more . At length , completely weary of his mode of life , he formed ...
... whole of his library ; for his father , who thought he had better be minding his sheep , than learning Latin and Greek , did not supply him with the means of procuring more . At length , completely weary of his mode of life , he formed ...
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... whole of his fortune . this sixty - eight pounds he bought needful books ; boarded himself for some weeks at Boston ; procured suitable clothes ; paid all travelling expences , and those attend- ing his ordination ; and entered on his ...
... whole of his fortune . this sixty - eight pounds he bought needful books ; boarded himself for some weeks at Boston ; procured suitable clothes ; paid all travelling expences , and those attend- ing his ordination ; and entered on his ...
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Page 69 - Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Page 61 - The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean tide ; The hum of bees, the linnet's lay of love, And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 62 - The cottage curs at early pilgrim bark ; Crown'd with her pail the tripping milk-maid sings ; The whistling ploughman stalks afield ; and hark! Down the rough slope the ponderous waggon rings ; Thro...
Page 24 - I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child.
Page 90 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page 41 - ... pleasure in relating, as an instance of his young master's punctuality and goodness of disposition, that he never failed to be at the long buttressed wall, which separated the garden from the road, just as the baker's cart was going past, when he would purchase a loaf, throw it over the wall, and, on entering the garden, good-humouredly say, " Harry, look among the cabbages, you will find something for your family.
Page 51 - ALMIGHTY God, thy piercing eye Strikes through, the shades of night; And our most secret actions lie All open to thy sight. There's not a sin that we commit, Nor wicked word we say, But in thy dreadful book 'tis writ, Against the judgment day.
Page 80 - In his fifth year, as he was one morning turning over the leaves of a Bible in his mother's closet, his attention was forcibly arrested by the sublime description of the angel in the tenth chapter of the Apocalypse ; and the impression which his imagination received from it was never effaced. At a period of mature judgment, he considered the passage as equal in sublimity to any in the inspired...
Page 42 - I mark'd thee with o'er-ruling eye, And sent admiring angels from on high, To walk the paths of danger by thy side, From death to shield thee, and thro
Page 69 - Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine, Thy charms my only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence! the scared owl on pinions grey Breaks from the rustling boughs, And down the lone vale sails away To more profound repose.