Mile Stones in Our Life-journeyD. Appleton, 1855 - 307 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Abarim affections anxiety blessing breathe bring Canaan character cheerful cherished child childhood Christ Christian church communion conscious conservatism Corinth death devout divine grace divine kingdom earnest earth earthly ergies eternal experience fact faculty faith Farmingdale Father feeling fidelity folly friends fulness future give glory God's gospel heart heaven heavenly hope Horeb human immortality indolence Isaac Taylor Jesus labor liberal Christian light ligion live look manhood meditation mind moral motive nature never passions peace prayer present psalm quietude reality reason religion rest reverence Rhode Island rience SAMUEL OSGOOD sense song soul speak sphere spirit spiritual world sting strength subdue surely temper thee things thou thought tion true fire truth unseen venera vision wait way-mark whilst whole wisdom wise words worldly young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 80 - Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, — one step enough for me.
Página 82 - His soul is yet a white paper unscribbled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurred note-book. He is purely happy, because he knows no evil nor hath made means by sin to be acquainted with misery. He arrives not at the mischief of being wise, nor endures evils to come by foreseeing them.
Página 102 - COME, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Página 110 - Straight forward goes The lightning's path, and straight the fearful path Of the cannon-ball. Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches, My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines. Honoring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.
Página 178 - But, if thou be a king, where is thy crown ? K. Hen. My crown is in my heart, not on my head ; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen : my crown is called content ; A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
Página 136 - The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering...
Página 137 - Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Página 225 - Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and the rider has he thrown into the sea
Página 102 - Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Página 48 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.