Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 2, Issue 72Harper, 1844 - Creation |
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Page 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Page 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Page 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
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Page 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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Page 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Page 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...
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| Title | Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 2, Issue 72 Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Sharon Turner Issue 32; Issue 72; Issue 84 of The family library |
| Author | Sharon Turner |
| Publisher | Harper, 1844 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 12 Oct 2007 |
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