Our Happy Home; Or, The Family CircleBradley, Dayton & Company, 1856 - 248 pages |
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Page 114 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 37 - Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in gifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
Page 168 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 121 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Page 172 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 64 - UP the hillside, down the glen, Rouse the sleeping citizen ; Summon out the might of men ! Like a lion growling low, — Like a night-storm rising slow, — Like the tread of unseen foe, — It is coming, — it is nigh ! Stand your homes and altars by ; On your own free thresholds die. Clang the bells in all your spires ; On the gray hills of your sires Fling to heaven your signal-fires.
Page 220 - The next arrival brought nearly half a million to the insolvents, but it was too late ; they were ruined, because their agent, in remitting, had been behind time. A condemned man was being led out for execution. He had taken human life, but under circumstances of the greatest provocation, and public sympathy was active in his behalf. Thousands had signed petitions for a reprieve...
Page 245 - Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Page 217 - KIND words can never die ; Cherished and blest, God knows how deep they lie Stored in the breast...
Page 219 - The conductor was late, so late that the period during which the down train was to wait had nearly elapsed; but he hoped yet to pass the curve safely. Suddenly a locomotive dashed into sight right ahead. In an instant there was a collision. A shriek, a shock, and fifty souls were in eternity; and all because an engineer had been "behind time.