British Guiana: Or, Work and Wanderings Among the Creoles and Coolies, the Africans and Indians of the Wild CountryT. F. Unwin, 1898 - 247 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 93 - \\7"E bid thee welcome in the name • • Of Jesus, our exalted Head ; Come as a servant ; so he came, And we receive thee in his stead. 2 Come as a shepherd ; guard and keep This fold from hell, and earth, and sin; Nourish the lambs, and. feed the sheep, The wounded heal, the lost bring in.
الصفحة 23 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
الصفحة 174 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
الصفحة 119 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
الصفحة 159 - And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them...
الصفحة 246 - The development of medicine from an empiric art to an exact science is one of the most important and also one of the most interesting chapters in the history of civilisation. The...
الصفحة 152 - Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. There no mother's eye is near them, There no mother's ear can hear them ; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters — Woe is me, my stolen daughters I Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone.
الصفحة 88 - There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower ; On every herb on which you tread Are written words which, rightly read, Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod To hope, and holiness, and God.
الصفحة 9 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
الصفحة 205 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.