Josiah Gilbert Holland

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C. Scribner's sons, 1894 - 208 páginas
 

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Página 168 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Página 57 - All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!
Página 112 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us : that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Página 126 - Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
Página 156 - We trace to Thee our joys and woes, — To Thee of causes still the cause, — We thank Thee that Thy hand bestows ; We bless Thee that Thy love withdraws. BJTTEE-8WEET. 59 We bring no sorrows to Thy throne ; We come to Thee with no complaint. In Providence Thy will is done, And that is sacred to the saint.
Página 60 - I made a solemn vow before God, that if General Lee was driven back from Pennsylvania, I would crown the result by the declaration of freedom to the slaves.
Página 131 - is one of the few books that have found the secret of drawing up and assimilating the juices of this New World of ours.
Página 166 - Ah, Blanco ! did I worship God As truly as you worship me, Or follow where my Master trod With your humility, Did I sit fondly at His feet, As you, dear Blanco, sit at mine, And watch Him with a love as sweet, My life would grow divine ! TWO HOMES.
Página 128 - Life evermore is fed by death, In earth and sea and sky; And, that .a rose may breathe its breath, Something must die.

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