The Child at Home, Or, The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly IllustratedAmerican Tract Society, 1833 - 173 páginas |
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... little acts of unkind- ness , you may soon be as wicked as she , and make your parents as unhappy as is her poor broken- hearted mother . Persons never become so very wicked all at once . They go on from step to step , in disobedience ...
... little acts of unkind- ness , you may soon be as wicked as she , and make your parents as unhappy as is her poor broken- hearted mother . Persons never become so very wicked all at once . They go on from step to step , in disobedience ...
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... little robin , pouring out its clear notes upon the bough of some lofty tree . It seemed so pleasant to be playing in the fields , that she was unwilling to go promptly to school . She thought it would not be very wrong to play a little ...
... little robin , pouring out its clear notes upon the bough of some lofty tree . It seemed so pleasant to be playing in the fields , that she was unwilling to go promptly to school . She thought it would not be very wrong to play a little ...
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... girl ! Little are you aware of the woes you are preparing for yourself . I hope that no child who reads these pages will ever feel these woes . You have just read that it is in your power to make your parents very unhappy ; and you have ...
... girl ! Little are you aware of the woes you are preparing for yourself . I hope that no child who reads these pages will ever feel these woes . You have just read that it is in your power to make your parents very unhappy ; and you have ...
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... little things . But every day he grew worse , more disobedient and wilful , and trou- blesome . He would run away from school , and thus grew up in ignorance . He associated with bad boys , and learned to swear and to lie , and to steal ...
... little things . But every day he grew worse , more disobedient and wilful , and trou- blesome . He would run away from school , and thus grew up in ignorance . He associated with bad boys , and learned to swear and to lie , and to steal ...
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... little sleep . This unhappy boy had acquired so sour a disposition , and was so dis- obliging , that all the sailors disliked him , and would do every thing they could to teaze him . When there was a storm , and he was pale with fear ...
... little sleep . This unhappy boy had acquired so sour a disposition , and was so dis- obliging , that all the sailors disliked him , and would do every thing they could to teaze him . When there was a storm , and he was pale with fear ...
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affection affectionate AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY angels ardently bosom brothers called Casabianca cheerful Child at Home child who reads Christian cold conscience countenance courage crime CROCKER & BREWSTER dark Daugh daughter day of judgment death dili disgrace disobedience door duty endeavor enter falsehood father fear feel felt fireside forgiveness friends George George Jones George Washington give grateful guilty happy heart heaven Henry hour idle ingratitude JOHN S. C. ABBOTT kind King Lear knew laugh liar little boy little girl live look love the Savior morning mother ness never night obedient obey panions parents pass peace penitent perhaps play playmates pleasant poor pray prison punishment racter reads this book refuse scene ship sick sincere sins soon sorrow spirit suffered tears tell a lie temptation ther thing thought told ungrateful unhappy unkind watched weep wicked wish wretched wrong
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Página 62 - And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still, yet brave despair; And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?
Página 62 - While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child, Like banners in the sky. There came a burst of thunder sound — The boy — oh ! where was he ? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea ! — With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart...
Página 61 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead.
Página 63 - The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud: " Say, father, say If yet my task is done!" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son.
Página 61 - Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" —And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Página 144 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...
Página 142 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Página 21 - I might die, and be buried with her; and old as I now am, I would give worlds were they mine to give, could my mother but have lived to tell me she forgave my childish ingratitude. But I...
Página 112 - Christian benevolence prompted the aspiration and belief that it was not the ' will of our Father who is in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Página 130 - And if you are not diligent in the improvement of your time, it is one of the surest evidences that your heart is not right with God. You are placed in this world to improve your time. In youth, you must be preparing for future usefulness. And if you do not improve the advantages you enjoy, you sin against your Maker. "With books, or work, or healthful play, Let your first years be past, That you may give, for every day, Some good account at last.