'Friendly' sketches; essays illustrative of Quakerism

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S.W. Harris, 1876 - 96 sivua
 

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Sivu 95 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Sivu 34 - We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray ; But, dim or clear, we own in thee The Light, the Truth, the Way!
Sivu 55 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Sivu 55 - God, the prosperity of truth, the peace of the church, were concerned ; very tender, compassionate, and pitiful he was to all that were under any sort of affliction ; full of brotherly love, full of fatherly care; for, indeed, the care of the churches of Christ was daily upon him, the prosperity and peace whereof he studiously sought. Beloved he was of God ; beloved of God's people ; and (which was not the least part of his honour) the common butt of all apostates...
Sivu 55 - These to their softened hearts should bear The thought of what has been, And speak of one who cannot share The gladness of the scene; Whose part, in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills, Is — that his grave is green; And deeply would their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice.
Sivu 6 - Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand.
Sivu 2 - Get the writings of John Woolman by heart; and love the early Quakers.
Sivu 70 - ... play Among the ripening corn, Nor freshness of the flowers of May Blow through the autumn morn; Yet shall the blue-eyed gentian look Through fringed lids to heaven, And the pale aster in the brook Shall see its image given. The woods shall wear their robes of praise, The south wind softly sigh, And sweet, calm days in golden haze Melt down the amber sky.
Sivu 74 - the Justices of Peace, Ministers, and others, well principled inhabitants of Leeds, Wakefield, and Bradford, &c." They represent, " That these populous places, and parts adjacent, now are, and for a long time have been, miserably perplexed and much dissettled by that unruly sect of people, called Quakers, whose principles are to overturn, overturn, overturn, magistracy, ministry, ordinances, all that which good men would keep up by their prayers and endeavours.
Sivu 61 - ... accompts as fully as the time allowed them will permit. Some useful employment may be provided for the boys according as their age, strength, talents, or condition may require. Learning and labor properly intermixed greatly assist the ends of both, a sound mind in a healthy body. The girls will also be instructed in knitting, spinning, useful needlework, and in such domestic occupations as are suitable to their sex and stations. I believe it is the wish of all...

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