Sister Ruth's Stories for the Young, Or, Evenings with John Woolman

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J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1865 - 121페이지
Stories about John Woolman for children.
 

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50 페이지 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
95 페이지 - Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
12 페이지 - Another thing remarkable in my childhood was that once, going to a neighbor's house, I saw on the way a robin sitting on her nest; and as I came near she went off, but having young ones, flew about and with many cries expressed her concern for them. I stood and threw stones at her, till one striking her, she fell down dead.
14 페이지 - ... up in a contrary disposition. About the twelfth year of my age, my father being abroad, my mother reproved me for some misconduct, to which I made an undutiful reply.
102 페이지 - ... of their bruises and great weariness in chasing one another over the rocks and mountains; and of their restless, unquiet state of mind who live in this spirit, and of the hatred which mutually grows up in the minds of the children of those nations engaged in war with each other— the desire to cherish the spirit of love and peace amongst these people arose very fresh in me.
65 페이지 - Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
22 페이지 - Some glances of real beauty may be seen in their faces who dwell in true meekness. There is a harmony in the sound of that voice to which divine love gives utterance, and some appearance of right order in their temper and conduct whose passions are fully regulated.
82 페이지 - I could not take pay for it, having admitted him into my house in passive obedience to authority. I was on horseback when he spoke to me ; and as I turned from him, he said, he was obliged to me : to which I said nothing ; but thinking on the expression, I grew uneasy; and afterwards being near where he lived, I went and told him on what grounds I refused taking pay for keeping the soldier.
108 페이지 - I was mixed in with them, and that henceforth I might not consider myself as a distinct or separate being. In this state I remained several hours. I then heard a soft melodious voice, more pure and harmonious than any I had heard with my ears before; I believed it was the voice of an angel, who spake to the other angels: the words were — John Woolman is dead.
108 페이지 - In a time of sickness with the pleurisy, a little upward of two years and a half ago, I was brought so near the gates of death, that I forgot my name : being then desirous to know who I was, I saw a mass of matter of a dull gloomy colour, between the south and the east...

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