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Seite 182 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 183 - Through the dear might of him that walked the waves. Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Seite 184 - Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich.
Seite 31 - The first money I ever recollect possessing was gained in the following way: — I went to Mr. Milks, of Kilmersdon, to school, a distance of three miles. One day, on my way, I picked up a horseshoe, and carried it about three miles, and sold it to a blacksmith for a penny. That was the first penny I ever recollect possessing; and I kept it for some time. A few weeks after, the same man called my attention to a boy who was carrying off some dirt opposite his door; and offered, if I would beat the...
Seite 42 - During years of close observation in the bosom of his family, I never saw a day pass without his accomplishing more than he expected ; and so regular was he in all his habits that I knew to a moment when I should find him with his pen, and when with his tooth-brush in his hand ; and so methodical and thorough, that though his papers filled...
Seite 117 - I obtained these books ? I never had all at once, but generally read one and sold it, the price of which, with a little added to it, enabled me to buy another, and this being read, was sold to procure the next.
Seite 100 - WHAT I WAS AS AN ARTIST SEEMED TO ME OF SOME IMPORTANCE WHILE I LIVED: BUT WHAT I REALLY WAS AS A BELIEVER IN CHRIST JESUS, IS THE ONLY THING OF IMPORTANCE TO ME NOW.
Seite 41 - It is better to walk than to run, and better to stand still than to walk ; and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie down than to sit." Industry is the secret of those grand results that fill the mind with wonder— the folios of the ancients, the pyramids of the Egyptians, those stupendous works of internal communication in our own country that bind the citizens of many different states in the bonds of harmony and interest. " There is no art or science," says Clarendon, " that is too difficult...
Seite 57 - I went to Liverpool, to plan a line to Manchester. I there pledged myself to attain a speed of ten miles an hour. I said I had no doubt the locomotive might be made to go much faster, but we had better be moderate at the beginning. The directors said I was quite right ; for if, when they went to Parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern.
Seite 42 - Alcott recommends that the learner seize on 'every circumstance which occurs in his reading, where reckoning is required, and, if possible, stop at once and compute it. Or, if not, let the place be marked, and, at the first leisure moment, let him turn to it and make the estimates.