Proceedings: Selected Papers [of The] Annual Meeting, Volume 15National Conference on Social Welfare, 1888 - Charities |
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Page 287 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 97 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 96 - THE end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Page 281 - I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, and have not love it profiteth me nothing.
Page 253 - Books are good enough in their own way, but (they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. It seems a pity to sit, like the Lady of Shalott, peering into a mirror, with your back turned on all the bustle and glamour of reality.
Page 291 - O Lord and Master of us all! Whate'er our name or sign, We own thy sway, we hear thy call, We test our lives by thine.
Page 290 - The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain; We touch him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again.
Page 97 - Fiery? the fiery duke? — Tell the hot duke, that— No, but not yet; — may be, he is not well. Infirmity doth still neglect all office, Whereto our health is bound ; we are not ourselves, When nature, being oppressed, commands th"e mind To suffer with the body.
Page 447 - Hospital, a charitable corporation, organized under chapter three hundred and nineteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled " An act for the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary societies...
Page 214 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake : I'm wae to think upo...