Elementary Moral Lessons: For Schools and Families

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Cowperthwait & Company, 1869 - Ethics - 253 pages
 

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Page 140 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 140 - But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Page 121 - That the troops may have an opportunity of attending public worship, as well as to take some rest after the great fatigue they have gone through, the General in future excuses them from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders.
Page 27 - Than all the battles ever fought, Or oaths that men have uttered. Friendship oft would longer last, And quarrels be prevented, If little words were let go past, Forgiven, not resented. Foolish things are frowns and sneers, For angry thoughts reveal them...
Page 61 - There's music in a mother's voice, More sweet than breezes sighing; There's kindness in a mother's glance, Too pure for ever dying. There's love within a mother's breast, So deep, 'tis still o'erflowing ; And care for those she calls her own, That's ever, ever growing.
Page 113 - The old man dropped his knife and fork, leaned forward with a stern intensity of expression ; his black eye, sparkling with indignation, was fixed on me. " John," said he, " you do not know what you are doing. You are serving the devil, boy. Do you...
Page 113 - I got to rum, and become again the drunken, contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt any man to break a good resolution.
Page 228 - On another occasion she had been leading some twenty or thirty maniacs into worship, and seeing them all quiet as lambs gathered into the Shepherd's fold, she prepared to go forth to other duties. In leaving the room, she passed an insane young man, with whom she had had several interviews. He stood with hands clasped, and a countenance of the deepest reverence. With a friendly smile, she said, " Henry, are you well to-day ?" " Hush ! — hush !" replied he, sinking his voice to a whisper, and gazing...
Page 70 - Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, saith he, 'If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
Page 206 - The pleasure of rousing their souls to bear pain, and of agreeing with God silently, when nobody knows what is in their hearts. There is a great pleasure in the exercise of the body, — in making the heart beat, and the limbs glow, in a run by the sea-side, or a game in the playground ; but this is nothing to the pleasure there is in exercising one's soul in bearing pain, — in finding one's heart glow with the hope that one is pleasing God.

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