| 1824 - 984 pages
...the father spoke, and knew not that be spoke prefiguring words; for soon after the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew-drop, into heaven. ADVANTAGES OP A MILD WINTEn. The old proverb, " An open winter makes a fat church-yard," or, more literally,... | |
| 1824 - 706 pages
...the father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words : for soon after the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was...our friends' graves were not by some confusion of the mind blended with the image of our own: thirdly, if we had not in this life seated ourselves in... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...the father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words : for soon after the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew-drop, into hea6ATIRICAL NOTICE OF REVIEWERs. IN Swabia, in Saxony, in Pomerania, are towns in which are stationed... | |
| 1838 - 474 pages
...and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words ; for soon after the delicate child, with the mornipg brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew-drop, into heaven. IHB VOLUNTARY SYSTEM. A correspondent of the Liverpool Courier has been at the trouble to select from... | |
| Children's literature - 1850 - 740 pages
...the father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words ; for soon after, the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew-drop, Into heaven. HARK! A VOICE FROM HEAVEN l I SHINE in the light of God, His likeness stamps my brow, Through the shadows... | |
| 1850 - 790 pages
...tho father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words ; for soon after, tho delicate cliild, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew-drop, into heaven. — Jean Paul Richter. CENSUS FOE 1851. TUB Act 13 and 14 of Victoria, cap. 03, provide«, in twenty-seven... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1851 - 618 pages
...the father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words ; for soon after the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew drop, into heaven. — Selected. 3&nnmnI0 of Bi MARCH IN THE OLDEN TIME. THE PLAGUE IN LONDON.... | |
| Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...the father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words ; for soon after the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew-drop, into heaven." — How many of these " delicate, prematurely wise children" live but to die ! How many of their gentle... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 322 pages
...the father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words : for soon after the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was...our friends' graves were not by some confusion of the mind blended with the image of our own : thirdly, if we had not in this life seated ourselves in... | |
| William Walters (Baptist Minister.) - 1861 - 424 pages
...tho father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words: for soon after, the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dewdrop into heaven." How sustaining and comforting to those parents who have been called to commit their infant children... | |
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