The Old Log School House: Furnitured with Incidents of School Life, Notes of Travel, Poetry, Hints to Teachers and Pupils, and Miscellaneous SketchesLeary, Getz & Company, 1861 - 288 pages |
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... ground where nothing but an intellectual growth could be expected , Nature scorning .such a spot for any of her herbaceous children . There was a little brook , spanned by a rude wooden bridge , which ran at the base of the hill of ...
... ground where nothing but an intellectual growth could be expected , Nature scorning .such a spot for any of her herbaceous children . There was a little brook , spanned by a rude wooden bridge , which ran at the base of the hill of ...
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... ground , leaving the room perfectly square . Such , monstrous logs as hissed , and smoked , and cracked their lives away in ruddy gleams and glorious warmth ! The external appearance of the house was not unlike that of most other ...
... ground , leaving the room perfectly square . Such , monstrous logs as hissed , and smoked , and cracked their lives away in ruddy gleams and glorious warmth ! The external appearance of the house was not unlike that of most other ...
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... ground on which it stood ! -wished even that Benny had been put in the grave - yard with the rest of the Rollins ! He never once thought he could by any possibility attain to Benny's standing ; but with the usual meanness of narrow ...
... ground on which it stood ! -wished even that Benny had been put in the grave - yard with the rest of the Rollins ! He never once thought he could by any possibility attain to Benny's standing ; but with the usual meanness of narrow ...
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... grounds to practical farmers , the mill to Mr. Walton , as a shel- tered employment suited his delicate health ; and Peter was to reside with the latter , as she could not take him to a village life with his idiosyncracies . The death ...
... grounds to practical farmers , the mill to Mr. Walton , as a shel- tered employment suited his delicate health ; and Peter was to reside with the latter , as she could not take him to a village life with his idiosyncracies . The death ...
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... ground in one day's sunshine , was this one . The earth looked as if fairy - fingers had woven Gobelin tapestry all over its surface , and netted it with scarlet and amber meshes , like a gaudy vail . Guy Foster softened , and with ...
... ground in one day's sunshine , was this one . The earth looked as if fairy - fingers had woven Gobelin tapestry all over its surface , and netted it with scarlet and amber meshes , like a gaudy vail . Guy Foster softened , and with ...
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Page 170 - But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.
Page 257 - INTO the Silent Land ! Ah ! who shall lead us thither ? Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather, And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand. Who leads us with a gentle hand Thither, O thither, Into the Silent Land...
Page 223 - Just as I am, without one plea, But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
Page 51 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place.
Page 177 - This book is all that's left me now, — Tears will unbidden start, — With faltering lip and throbbing brow I press it to my heart. For many generations past Here is our family tree; My mother's hands this Bible clasped, She, dying, gave it me.
Page 177 - God's word to hear. Her angel face — I see it yet ! What thronging memories come ! Again that little group is met Within the halls of home ! Thou truest friend man ever knew, Thy constancy I've tried; Where all were false I found thee true. My counsellor and guide. The mines of earth no treasure give That could this volume buy: In teaching me the way to live, It taught me how to die.
Page 33 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; "" Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child.
Page 88 - ... us to endure. Angel of Patience ! sent to calm Our feverish brows with cooling palm ; To lay the storms of hope and fear, And reconcile life's smile and tear ; The throbs of wounded pride to still, And make our own our Father's will...
Page 141 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 177 - Ah ! well do I remember those Whose names these records bear ; Who round the hearthstone used to close, After the evening prayer, And speak of what these pages said In tones my heart would thrill ! Though they are with the silent dead, Here are they living still ! My father read this holy book To brothers, sisters, dear...