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Σελίδα 98 - For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Σελίδα 98 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Σελίδα 5 - And here let me say a word in favor of those vicissitudes which are too often made the subject of exclusive repining. If they annoy us occasionally by changes from hot to cold, from wet to dry, they give us one of the most beautiful climates in the world. They give us the brilliant sunshine of the south of Europe, with the fresh verdure of the north. They float our summer sky with clouds of gorgeous tints or fleecy whiteness, and send down cooling showers to refresh the panting earth and keep it...
Σελίδα 185 - Vermont, did not rise before me ; and to-day, at sixty, my lips are innocent of the taste of liquor.' Was not that sweet evidence of the power of a single word ? Yet that was not half. ' For,' said he, ' yesterday there came into my counting-room a man of forty years, and asked me, ' Do you know me ? '
Σελίδα 166 - Bees, therefore, in the formation of their cells have to solve a problem which would puzzle some geometers, namely, a quantity of wax being given, to form of it similar and equal cells of a determinate capacity, but of the largest size in proportion to the quantity of matter employed, and disposed in such a manner as to occupy in the hive the least possible space.
Σελίδα 58 - There is no greater error in the management of children, than that of giving them animal diet very early. By persevering in the use of an over-stimulating diet the digestive organs become irritated, and the various secretions immediately connected with digestion, and necessary to it, are diminished, especially the biliary secretion.
Σελίδα 155 - ... these very lands at rates much higher than the price at which they could be obtained from the Government. 4. It is extremely doubtful, to say the least, whether this bill would contribute to the advancement of agriculture and the mechanic arts — objects the dignity and value of which cannot be too highly appreciated.
Σελίδα 59 - Shakspeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me / with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Σελίδα 76 - MANY an unwise parent labors hard, and lives sparingly all his life, for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children 'a start in the world,' as it is called. Setting a young man afloat with money left him by his relatives, is like tying bladders under the...
Σελίδα 11 - That he is so constituted by nature that he will not offer resistance to any demand made of him which he fully comprehends, if made in a way consistent with the laws of his nature.