Children's Sayings: Ed. with a Digression on the Small PeopleIsbister limited, 1901 - 151页 |
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Adam and Eve aged four angels answered asked aunt auntie Baba log babe baby sister beautiful bless Boy Beloved called child childhood childish church cried Crucifixion darling dear delight doll Druid Egypt elder Ernest exclaimed face father four years old funny garden Gippie go to heaven God's gone grandma grannie grave hand heard hearing hymn inquired Isobel Jacob's ladder Jesus kiss lady laugh listening little boy little brother little fellow little girl live looked mamma mind Molly morning mother mummie naughty Neckan never nice night nurse Oh yes pappa Passover pinfold playing playmates poor pray prayers Professor Sully realm of fancy remarked replied Satan say your prayers small boy soul spect story suddenly Sunday sweet teacher tell thee Theseus things thou thought three-year-old to-day told walking wanted watching Willie wonder words
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第46页 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He hath a devil.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
第31页 - I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true : my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and all this world a deception, my fellow-angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world.
第40页 - Can anything be more marvellous or startling, unless we were used to it, than that we should have a race of beings about us whom we do but see, and as little know their state, or can describe their interests, or their destiny, as we can tell of the inhabitants of the sun and moon '; It is indeed a very overpowering thought, when we get to fix our minds on it...
第40页 - We have more real knowledge about the Angels than about the brutes. They have apparently passions, habits, and a certain accountableness, but all is mystery about them. We do not know whether they can sin or not, whether they are under punishment, whether they are to live after this life.
第85页 - Forth from the hand of Him, Who fondles it Before it is, like to a little girl Weeping and laughing in her childish sport, Issues the simple soul, that nothing knows, Save that, proceeding from a joyous Maker, Gladly it turns to that which gives it pleasure.
第130页 - A saint, whose very name I have forgotten, had a vision, in which he saw Satan standing before the throne of God, and, listening, he heard the evil spirit say, ' Why hast thou condemned me, who have offended thee but once, whilst thou savest thousands of men who have ofl'ended thee many times?
第64页 - Past are three summers since she first beheld The ocean ; all around the child await Some exclamation of amazement here : She coldly said, her long-lasht eyes abased, Is this the mighty ocean ? Is this all!
第31页 - I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah, and almost to persuade myself that, whatever might become of others, I should be translated in something of the same way to heaven. With a feeling congenial to this, I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in...
第27页 - Letters " James Smetham writes : " My first awakening to consciousness, as far as I can remember, was in a valley in Yorkshire, outside the garden-gate of my father's house, when at the age of two. I have a distinct remembrance of the ecstacy with which I regarded the distant blneness of the hills, and saw the laurels shake in the wind and felt it lift my hair.
第27页 - Then I recollect a curious little epoch in my life, as we were returning one evening from a forest ramble with my father. It was the first evidence to my mind that I could think. I remember very well the new light, the gladness, the wealth of which I seemed suddenly possessed. It has curiously connected itself in my mind with passing a pinfold. That particular spot seemed like the line between rational and irrational existence; and so childish was I in intellectual life, that it seemed to me as if...