| William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pages
...customs of her own, till Sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespectcd forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and...: What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
| Conduct of life - 1854 - 402 pages
...friendly faces. How truly is it said, and one feels the force of it in rural regions — " God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder, then,...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatend in the... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knoes and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound Anil least be tlircaten'd in... | |
| William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. ^God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then45, that health and virtue, gifts 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds... | |
| William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pages
...customs of her own, till Sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in... | |
| William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pages
...own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into uninspected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town....that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in... | |
| John Mitchell - Christian biography - 1855 - 280 pages
...tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." " God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder, then,...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened iu... | |
| House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Juvenile delinquency - 1855 - 176 pages
...miracle can save them from the consequences of ignorance — -juvenile delinquency. SECTION II. "God made the country, and man made the town, What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That alone can make sweet the bitter draughts That life holds out to all, should most abound, And least... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...The erieket ehirrups in the hearth, The eraekling fagot flies. GMsmith's Hermit. God mode the eountry and man made the town ; What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That ean alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...MOST HEALTH AND VIRTUE. — IDLENESS. — SIMPLE DESIRES AND JOYS OF THE COUNTRY FOREBODINGS. God made does not fade ? The tower that long had The crash of thunder and the warring winds, [stood sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in... | |
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