The Rhode Island Schoolmaster, Volumen4

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Página 314 - earth is full of thy riches, so is the great and wide sea. The glory* of the Lord shall endure forever, the Lord shall rejoice in all his works. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I
Página 231 - is with the sheep. And David came to Saul and stood before him ; and he loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer. And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand : so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from
Página 77 - I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clinches, his serious swelling into * Sketch Book. bombast. But he is always great when some occasion is presented to him." " The most exquisite poetical conceptions, images
Página 231 - that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person and the Lord is with him. Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse and said, Send me David thy son that is with the sheep. And David came to Saul and stood before him ; and
Página 77 - he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes anything, you more than see it— you feel it, too. Those who accuse him to hare wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he
Página 20 - wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts beat but once, and forever lay still!" The French and Latin elements of our language, of course, have their place
Página 143 - who died AD 353. The Alpha and Omega which accompany the symbol, indicate the faith of the emperor in the divinity of Christ,—" The beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." For the above descriptions, we hold
Página 152 - Two Ways of Telling the Same Story. " Jack and Gill went up the hill To draw a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Gill came tumbling after.
Página 304 - Oh, liberty ! can man resign thee, Once having felt thy generous flame : Can dungeons, bolts, and bars confine thee ? Or whips thy noble spirit tame ? Too long the world has wept, bewailing That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield—» But freedom is our sword and shield, And all their arts arc unavailing.
Página 231 - he would have been incapable of his public duty. It was in music that the wicked Saul sought relief when the Lord in anger sent an evil spirit to trouble him. For thus it is written : '' And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now an evil spirit from the

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