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Page 261 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Page 75 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 139 - The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery; and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.
Page 70 - A KNIGHT there was, and that a worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalry, Truth and honour, freedom and courtesy.
Page 68 - He hath filled the hungry with good things ; and the rich He hath sent empty away. He hath holpen His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy ; as He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
Page 59 - Paris, savez-vous," he said vehemently. " All I can do is to help them to keep their faith. Till now they have lived with God and the mountains. ... It is very little that one needs in this life. We have so short a time here." Miss Durham caught the temperament of the people among whom she travelled, and that is why she makes us feel that we are living in another Europe and another century, among the people of the Balkans as they are to this...
Page 348 - The want of an Old Testament History for schools which should frankly accept the main conclusions established by modern criticism has long been felt. Dr. Fry, holding that it is a safeguard to true religion that the new views of the Old Testament should be regarded as part of religious, and not anti-religious teaching, and believing that the faith of the next generation largely depends on the truth being told, has written this book, generally speaking, from the critical standpoint. Although primarily...
Page 193 - Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.
Page 55 - Christ's lore, and his apostles twelve He taught, but first he followed it himself.