 | Ann Taylor - 1817 - 120 pages
...I. A CHILD'S HYMN OF PRAISE. I THANK• the goodness and the grac« Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English...GOD was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r, To blocks of wood and stone. I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1819 - 118 pages
...MINDS, I. A CHILD'S HYMN OF PRAISE. I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I was not bom, as thousands are, Where GOD was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r, To blocks of... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...1821. AN ENGLISH CHILD'S HYMN. 1 THANK the goodness and the grace, 'J hat on my hirth have smil'd ; And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I was not born, as thousands are, AY here God was never known : -Or faught to pray a useless prayer, To blocks of wood and stone, I 'was... | |
 | 1822 - 550 pages
...every one thank God that he was not born a poor little negro, or a gipsy's child, as your hymn says : I was not born, as thousands are, Where God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r To blocks of wood and stone. I was not bom a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...with great ease and propriety:— " I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have Smil'd, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English...God was never known, And taught to pray a useless pray'r, . To blocks of wood and stone. ^ " I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun, And... | |
 | Juvenile biography - Brothers and sisters - 1824 - 170 pages
...verse in your favourite hymn-book : " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English...God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r, To blocks of wood and stone." Mamma. The poor Hindoos, Louisa, are unacquainted with the name... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 284 pages
...puts me in mind of a verse or two, in my " Hymns for Infant Minds :" — " I thank the goodness nnd the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made...English child. I was not born, as thousands are, Where Gcd was never known, And taught to pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone." But, mamma,... | |
 | Joseph Allen - 1832 - 136 pages
...sung, The cheerful notes are heard in heaven. III. Gratitude for Christtan Privileges [Mear, Irish.] I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...have smiled, And made me in these christian days A free and happy child. I was not born, as millions are, Where God was never known, And taught to pray... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1832 - 106 pages
...<•<) Praise to God . . ' 96 ~0 Heaven and Earth 97 HYMNS INFANT MINDS. I. A CHILD S HYMN OF HRAISK. I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian d:iys A happy English child. I was not born as thousands are, Where GOD was never known ; And taught... | |
 | Lewis Glover Pray - Children's poetry - 1834 - 118 pages
...deeds and precepts of the Lord. / 51. Gratitude for the Gospel, c. M. ^ Hear. Clarendon. Medfield. I'l THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth...have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A free and happy child. And taught to pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone. 3 My God! I... | |
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I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child. 
