 An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)...  The Wesleyan juvenile offering - Page 45by Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...preclude our respect and approbation." LESSON XVIII. / The Discontented Pendulum. — JANE TAYLOR. _ 1. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, earlyone summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. 2. Upon this, the dial-plate... | |
 | 1848
...are designed to fit ns hetter for a pure and holy world, where trials and perplexities are unknown. An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, bef&re the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable)... | |
 | James Brown (of Philadelphia.) - English language - 1847 - 314 pages
...appears to have been \ 1444 4 expressly intended by our benevolent Creator." See p. 62 111222333444 19. An old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's 4 5 5 566 677 78 kitchen without the giving to its owner, of any cause of 8 1999 9 11010 fmplaint,... | |
 | Salem Town - Printing - 1848 - 298 pages
...good. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. A FABLE. 1. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a fanner's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint,...before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. 2. Upon this, the dial-plate, (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - Readers (Elementary) - 1849 - 298 pages
...doing it. The organs can generally be made ready without any noise. § THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. 1. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...fable,) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course : the wheels remained motionless with surprise : the weights... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...clock that had stood for fifty years in a fai • iner's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause o complaint, early one summer's morning, before the...family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the Uial5 plate (if \ve may credit the fable,) flanged countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...the visage or countenance had not a nose, pray who would, or who could, wear spectacles then? 253. Upon this the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm. 254. To speak of nothing else, the arrival of the English in her father's dominions must have appeared... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1851 - 294 pages
...m6re. We are accounted poor citizens ; the patricians good. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. A FABLE. 1. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. 2. Upon this, the dial-plate, (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1851 - 140 pages
...complaint, early one summer morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. CHANGED. 1. An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, suddenly stopped early one summer morning, before the family was stirring. 2. Early one summer morning,... | |
 | 1862 - 1406 pages
...justice without j s*>n*^' tdasl have judgment without juf THE DISCONTENTED PENDTJLTTMLTN old clock iliai had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without...early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring1, suddenly stopped. Upon this the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance... | |
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