Thoughts and stories for girlsG. Routledge and Sons, 1884 - 240 Seiten |
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Alice asked bear beautiful Bessie better blessings boys Business is business Calder Caroline Horton Caroline's Charlie Clara Lyall clever cloth daughter dear delight dreams Drem dress duty EDMUND EVANS emplate eyes fashion father fear feel felt flowers friends friendship garotters girls give glad God's governess growing habit hand happy hear heard heart household Illustrations J. R. PLANCHÉ keep kind knew lady Lady BARKER leisure lives look love-story Magdalen mamma means Mid Lothian mind mother never oculist orphan ourselves pain pass perhaps plain truth pleasant poor pretty private proverb Rachel Marvin real genius remember Sarah seemed servant Sir JOHN GILBERT sister sorrow soul story sunshine sweet Swiss Family Robinson talk tell things thought to-day true wise woman women wonder words young
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Seite 72 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Seite 112 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Seite 86 - A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Seite 74 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire and clean.
Seite 47 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Seite 88 - They dance not for me, Yet mine is their glee ! Thus pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find ; Thus a rich loving-kindness, redundantly kind, Moves all nature to gladness and mirth.
Seite 85 - And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Seite 100 - By the street of By-and-by one arrives at the house of Never " (Spanish).1 Never put off tin to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Seite 87 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And, — it was nothing more.
Seite 89 - When any thing happens to our displeasure, let us endeavour to take off its trouble by turning it into spiritual or artificial advantage, and handle it on that side, in which it may be useful to the designs of reason. For there is nothing but hath a double handle, or at least we have two hands to apprehend it.