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Page 42
One day a little boy was learning to write ; he had surmounted the difficulty of
straight strokes — for difficult they are at first — and a harder copy was set . The
child looked at it again and again , but at the sight he was greatly disheartened ; it
...
One day a little boy was learning to write ; he had surmounted the difficulty of
straight strokes — for difficult they are at first — and a harder copy was set . The
child looked at it again and again , but at the sight he was greatly disheartened ; it
...
Page 82
In a Sunday school , opened for children in the most destitute circumstances in
London , a lad was asked by a teacher where he lived , but he made no answer ,
and turned his head away . A little boy in the same class said that this lad lived ...
In a Sunday school , opened for children in the most destitute circumstances in
London , a lad was asked by a teacher where he lived , but he made no answer ,
and turned his head away . A little boy in the same class said that this lad lived ...
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In doing so , it will appear , perhaps , that the pain felt was owing entirely to
accident , and that the little boy or girl who caused it really suffered more than the
other who made so much noise . But it may have been otherwise . Some children
...
In doing so , it will appear , perhaps , that the pain felt was owing entirely to
accident , and that the little boy or girl who caused it really suffered more than the
other who made so much noise . But it may have been otherwise . Some children
...
Page 98
A little boy , who , I believe , was not more than four years of age , showed that he
felt the importance of what I am now urging on all my young friends to whom this
book will come . His father had been taking a walk one morning , when he ...
A little boy , who , I believe , was not more than four years of age , showed that he
felt the importance of what I am now urging on all my young friends to whom this
book will come . His father had been taking a walk one morning , when he ...
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William (uncle, pseud.) I was once walking in a garden with a little boy , who was
showing me the parts of it allotted to himself and his two brothers . As I passed on
, I stooped to gather some currants from a bush , but he asked me not to do so .
William (uncle, pseud.) I was once walking in a garden with a little boy , who was
showing me the parts of it allotted to himself and his two brothers . As I passed on
, I stooped to gather some currants from a bush , but he asked me not to do so .
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Page 23 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
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Page 28 - CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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Page 41 - The wise and active conquer difficulties, By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard, And make th
Page 20 - I view the old cottage so dear, Where I sported, a babe, without sorrow or fear : I would leave this great city, so brilliant and gay, For a peep at my home on this fair summer-day.
Page 24 - These were the old-fashioned boxes that had garnished his mother's toilette, when he, a sickly child, slept in her dressing-room — the silver taper-stand which the young advocate had bought for her with his first five-guinea fee — a row of small packets inscribed with her hand, and containing the hair of those of her offspring that had died before her — his father's snuff-box and etui-case — and more things of the like sort, recalling *
Page 24 - On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, which had obviously been so placed there that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks.
Page 20 - I view the old mansion so dear, Where I sported, a babe without sorrow or fear : I would leave this great city, so brilliant and gay, For a peep at my home on this pure summer- day.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Kind Words for His Young Friends |
| Author | William (uncle, pseud.) |
| Publisher | Religious Tract Society, 1842 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Aug 2006 |
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