Hours at Home, Volume 11Charles Scribner & Company, 1870 - Theology |
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... human eye , blindly as the little in- sects seem to wander in the dust , still they go as little astray as the stars in heaven . They are strange wanderers at times , sallying forth for nothing less than their nuptials . All the ...
... human eye , blindly as the little in- sects seem to wander in the dust , still they go as little astray as the stars in heaven . They are strange wanderers at times , sallying forth for nothing less than their nuptials . All the ...
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... human in- terest in him . It was one day about the New Year- an afternoon when it had happened that they were alone together . He was not unfrequently alone with her when he read to her , and he had been reading to 18 [ May , Hero .
... human in- terest in him . It was one day about the New Year- an afternoon when it had happened that they were alone together . He was not unfrequently alone with her when he read to her , and he had been reading to 18 [ May , Hero .
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... human love that was around her that she clung to it , and did not want to leave it - not even for heaven , where the angels ' faces would be strange to her . A little more happiness here first - that was what she cried to God for ; a ...
... human love that was around her that she clung to it , and did not want to leave it - not even for heaven , where the angels ' faces would be strange to her . A little more happiness here first - that was what she cried to God for ; a ...
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... muscle . " This is a great waste of digestive power , and it is far more economical - more human and less beastly - to eat nitrogen directly in lean meat and eggs . 99 All forms of diet which vary from the just 36 [ May , Diet en Masse .
... muscle . " This is a great waste of digestive power , and it is far more economical - more human and less beastly - to eat nitrogen directly in lean meat and eggs . 99 All forms of diet which vary from the just 36 [ May , Diet en Masse .
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... human body must come out . We eat an aver- age of one and a half tons of food per What becomes of it ? Physi- ologists have endeavored to study the gain and waste of the system in such a way as to show how much we ought to eat , and of ...
... human body must come out . We eat an aver- age of one and a half tons of food per What becomes of it ? Physi- ologists have endeavored to study the gain and waste of the system in such a way as to show how much we ought to eat , and of ...
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Page 59 - Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Little lamb, I'll tell thee; Little lamb, I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild, He became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb,...
Page 55 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a guinea?" "O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying, 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty".
Page 96 - SKETCHES OF CREATION. Sketches of Creation: a Popular View of some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System. By ALEXANDER WINCHELL, LL.D., Professor of Geology, Zoology, and Botany in the University of Michigan, and Director of the State Geological Survey.
Page 59 - My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree And sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And pointing to the east began to say, Look on the rising sun: there God...
Page 185 - You expected bread, and you have got a stone ; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrized : do not doubt that your mental stomach — if you have such a thing — is strong as an ostrich's — the stone will digest.
Page 56 - He led me through his gardens fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fired my vocal rage; He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage. He loves to sit and hear me sing; Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
Page 99 - We say, let your rogues in novels act like rogues, and your honest men like honest men ; don't let us have any juggling and thimblerigging with virtue and vice, so that, at the end of three volumes, the bewildered reader shall not know which is which...
Page 541 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
Page 57 - My smiles and languished air, By love are driven away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have. His face is fair as heaven When springing buds unfold; Oh, why to him was't given, Whose heart is wintry cold?
Page 55 - What? - it will be questioned — when the Sun rises do you not see a round Disk of fire somewhat like a guinea? О no, no, I see an innumerable company of the Heavenly Host crying: Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty...