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Page 100 - In every village marked with little spire. Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name...
Page 100 - As is the hare-bell that adorns the field : And in her hand, for sceptre, she does wield Tway birchen sprays...
Page 101 - Right well she knew each temper to descry ; To thwart the proud, and the submiss to raise ; Some with vile...
Page 118 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 29 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing... Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,...
Page 101 - ... the submiss to raise; Some with vile copper-prize exalt on high, And some entice with pittance small of praise ; And other some with baleful sprig she 'frays...
Page 106 - The first habitations of men were caves and the hollow of rocks ; and God was the first great Architect. Then, as families multiplied, they wanted separate habitations, and they formed something like what the Indians call wigwams ; that is, they took groups of trees, and cut out the centre ones, then twisted the tops of the outer trees together, and so made themselves a shelter from sun and rain.
Page 109 - There was no domestic branch of education that Elinor did not think important for her brothers, even to the sewing on of a button ; for she told them they would often be so situated as to be obliged to do it for themselves, and then it was important to do it in the right way.
Page 68 - the rich and the poor meet together, and God is the Maker of them all.
Page 120 - ... made for the smooth waters of a summer's sea. Woman has her part to perform as well as man, nor is it one of less vigorous principle.