Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
"We offer no words of inspired thought, No gems from the mines of wisdom brought, No flowers of language to deck the page, No borrowed glories of Muse or Sage; But an offering simple and pure we bring, And a wreath of wild roses around it fling; Not culled from the shades of e...
"We offer no words of inspired thought, No gems from the mines of wisdom brought, No flowers of language to deck the page, No borrowed glories of Muse or Sage; But an offering s...
2. Chapter 2We have done wrong, dear sister; and I'm very sad to-day: For I have felt how far we've strayed from wisdom's blessed way; Have felt how much of angry strife hath dwelt within o...
3. Chapter 3Ring, ring, went the bell; and then, O, what a hustling! All knew 'twas the signal to part; What searching for bonnets and boxes! what bustling! All hurrying, eager to start.
4. Chapter 4But _now_, all the precious gifts which learning can bestow are justly extended to _her_ also; and man, with his increase of knowledge, has wisely learned to respect the mental...
5. Chapter 5The influence upon her feelings of the change in regard to a place of worship, was very marked. She was naturally inclined to religious meditation and reflection, but was never...
6. Chapter 6One of our first duties is to seek our own moral and intellectual culture. Let both these portions of our nature be cultivated together. Do not separate them, for by so doing bo...