Thoughts and Notes at Home and AbroadCassell, Peter, and Galpin, 1868 - 308 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 130 - Ah, how skilful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far exceedeth all the rest!
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الصفحة 305 - Little Songs for Me to Sing. Illustrated by JE MILLAIS, RA ; with Music composed expressly for the Work by HENRY LESLIE. Square Crown (Dedicated, by express permission, to Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS OF WALES) 6s. The Child's Garland of Little Poems ; Rhymes for Little People. With Exquisite Illustrative Borders by GIACOMELLI.
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الصفحة 94 - Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas. magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. 5 iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna, iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto. tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo, casta fave Lucina. tuus iam regnat Apollo.
الصفحة 1 - ... plans he had in his mind for improving their farm. The feeling of home came warming into their hearts, like the emotions of a new existence, as he spoke to them, with his kind voice and eyes, of our house, of our trees, of our cabbages, turnips, potatoes, pigs, and geese, and ducks, which we will grow for our comfort.
الصفحة 191 - Believe it; and look abroad upon your inheritance, and get ready to enter upon its possession. The kings, presidents, governors, statesmen, philosophers, ministers, teachers, men of the future, are all boys, whose feet, like yours, cannot reach the floor when seated on the benches upon which they are learning to master the monosyllables of their respective languages.
الصفحة 191 - Boys, did you ever think that this great world, with all its wealth and woe, with all its mines and mountains...
الصفحة 1 - As far as the east from the west, was their past life to be separated from their future — to be cut off and forgotten. And this cottage, away from the city and its haunts, with its bright fire by night, and the little beds under the roof, with its great bible and little psalm-books, was to be their home. And the great...
الصفحة 27 - ... and were equally entitled to its patronage and support. Is it an act affecting navigation ? It is to place all the ships that plough the ocean upon the same footing as if owned by one and the same nation. Is it a proposition to cheapen and extend the facilities of correspondence between individuals and communities ? It is to give the world an Ocean Penny Postage, to make home everywhere, and all nations neighbours.