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" 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 45
by Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1849
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Select readings from the poets and prose writers of every country, ed. by J ...

James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...Chester, charge ! On Stanley, on !"*** Were the last words of Marmion. SCOTT. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...fable) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights...
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The Third Reader of the School and Family Series

Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 272 pages
...L. annulits, a ring. MISCELLANEOUS. PART IV. MISCELLANEOUS. LESSON I. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. 1. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable1) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...life would be lightened if we could all come to the same cheerful state of mind with the pendulum.] AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. I Upon this the dial-plate, (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm ; the hands...
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The Revised Lesson Book for Standard I(-vi) of the Revised Code of the ...

Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...kitchen without giving its owner any cause of complaint, eariy one summer's morning, hefore the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate,...
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Reading Book

1864 - 422 pages
...Christian's pious hope :. .-- . O'ercomes a mother's grief. — Dale. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. . .'\ AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchenr without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family...
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A present to boys and young men, by a Sunday-school teacher

Present - 1865 - 548 pages
...work is easy to perform, and it is with the present alone we have to do. An old clock that had stood fifty years in a farmer's kitchen without giving its...morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped I Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm ; the weights...
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Select Readings from the Poets and Prose Writers of Every Country

James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on ! "*** Were the last words of Marmion. SCOTT. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights hung...
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The Sunday scholars' annual

1866 - 218 pages
...with her teacher ; who was so kind as to offer to assist her in choosing the cloth for her new cloak. AN old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, hefore the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable)...
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The complete reader, by E.T. Stevens and C. Hole, Volume 2

Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 280 pages
...ex'-e-cute, to do com-plain', to find fault con-sid-er-a'-tion, thought stag'-ger, to make less confident An old Clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this the Dial-plate (if we may...
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Analytical Fifth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 372 pages
...what we like, Simply by liking what we have." LXXXVL— THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. JANE TAYLOR. ' 1. An old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...fable) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights...
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