 | 1848
...are designed to fit ns hetter for a pure and holy world, where trials and perplexities are unknown. An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, bef&re the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this the dial-plate... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1846 - 392 pages
...florins for the endowment each year of three poor children of Vienna. The Discontented Pendulum. IN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's...kitchen without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this the dial-plate... | |
 | James Brown (of Philadelphia.) - English language - 1847 - 314 pages
...appears to have been \ 1444 4 expressly intended by our benevolent Creator." See p. 62 111222333444 19. An old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's 4 5 5 566 677 78 kitchen without the giving to its owner, of any cause of 8 1999 9 11010 fmplaint,... | |
 | Salem Town - Printing - 1848 - 298 pages
...Ay, m6re. We are accounted poor citizens : the patricians good. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. A FABLE. 1. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a fanner's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1849 - 184 pages
...the great importance of the Missionary work, and how little they are able to do at a time to help it. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1851 - 294 pages
...Ay, m6re. We are accounted poor citizens ; the patricians good. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. A FABLE. 1. AN old clock, that had stood for fifty years in...kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. 2. Upon this, the dial-plate,... | |
 | 1862 - 1406 pages
...justice without j s*>n*^' tdasl have judgment without juf THE DISCONTENTED PENDTJLTTMLTN old clock iliai had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring1, suddenly stopped. Upon this the dial-plate... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1855 - 136 pages
...one summer morning. before the family was stirring, an old clock, that, for fifty years, had stood in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, suddenly stopped. 3. As the postboy drove furiously along the road, and the threatening clouds obscured the moon, suddenly... | |
 | Oliver Optic - Book industries and trade - 1857 - 280 pages
...was to be done, it was no use to stand thinking about it, like the pendulum of the " old clock which had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint." with a rapid step. He was thinking very fast, and probably that made him step quick. But as he approached... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...milder majesty, And to the beautiful order of thy works Learn to conform the order of our lives. (T*) An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a...kitchen without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. v (r*) And" there was... | |
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An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)... 
