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... tell the world we're free . * ' Tis a happy theme ; like a golden dream its memory seems to be , And I'll sing while I have voice or tongue , The Common School for me ! " " This fell the more cordially into a Scottish ear , because of ...
... tell the world we're free . * ' Tis a happy theme ; like a golden dream its memory seems to be , And I'll sing while I have voice or tongue , The Common School for me ! " " This fell the more cordially into a Scottish ear , because of ...
Page 62
... bath - day to keep it holy . " The boy observed the words . They smote his conscience — he feared to go on , but was ashamed to tell his companions why he turned back ; so he gradually dropt behind and slipt 62 THE BOYS ' MEETING .
... bath - day to keep it holy . " The boy observed the words . They smote his conscience — he feared to go on , but was ashamed to tell his companions why he turned back ; so he gradually dropt behind and slipt 62 THE BOYS ' MEETING .
Page 85
... tell of college halls and profes- sors . The names of the first , and the faces or writings of many of the others , are familiar to stu- dents in Britain ; yet it is pleasant to recall the shades of Yale - the more than half venerable ...
... tell of college halls and profes- sors . The names of the first , and the faces or writings of many of the others , are familiar to stu- dents in Britain ; yet it is pleasant to recall the shades of Yale - the more than half venerable ...
Page 89
... tell gravely or fearfully how Grierson of Lagg , the bloody persecutor of the Dumfries - shire and Galloway covenanters , could not get carried to his grave - how the hearse three times broke down , and how the people trembled at the ...
... tell gravely or fearfully how Grierson of Lagg , the bloody persecutor of the Dumfries - shire and Galloway covenanters , could not get carried to his grave - how the hearse three times broke down , and how the people trembled at the ...
Page 99
... tell of what they shall achieve . We say they prophesy - we ought to say , they hope . We say they boast ! -we ought still to say , they hope . It seems easier to extingush in them the torch of life than that of hope . To this great ...
... tell of what they shall achieve . We say they prophesy - we ought to say , they hope . We say they boast ! -we ought still to say , they hope . It seems easier to extingush in them the torch of life than that of hope . To this great ...
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Page 118 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 79 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 147 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 318 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open