The Lure of the City: A Book for Young MenFunk & Wagnalls, 1908 - 284 pages |
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... leaves Home to mingle with the Crowd . CHAPTER II . - GOING INTO BUSINESS 23 In which the Question is raised , " What shall I do ? " CHAPTER III . - THE POOR BOY'S CHANCE 35 In which the Door is opened for a Farmer's Son . CHAPTER IV ...
... leaves Home to mingle with the Crowd . CHAPTER II . - GOING INTO BUSINESS 23 In which the Question is raised , " What shall I do ? " CHAPTER III . - THE POOR BOY'S CHANCE 35 In which the Door is opened for a Farmer's Son . CHAPTER IV ...
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... leave the flowers for the crown ? ' ' Then into his hand went mine , And into my heart came he , And I walked in a light divine , The path I had feared to see . GEORGE MACDONALD . I THE LURE OF THE CITY Chapter I THE CALL 9 THE CALL OF ...
... leave the flowers for the crown ? ' ' Then into his hand went mine , And into my heart came he , And I walked in a light divine , The path I had feared to see . GEORGE MACDONALD . I THE LURE OF THE CITY Chapter I THE CALL 9 THE CALL OF ...
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... leaves Home to mingle with the Crowd N the early morning , in the border - land between sleep and waking , while the shadows still linger and the silence is unbroken save by the echoing footfall of some belated reveler , if you listen ...
... leaves Home to mingle with the Crowd N the early morning , in the border - land between sleep and waking , while the shadows still linger and the silence is unbroken save by the echoing footfall of some belated reveler , if you listen ...
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... leaving the silences and solitudes he loved so well , he turned his face toward the larger tasks and responsibilities that awaited him . David heard it as he watched his father's flocks in the pastures near Bethlehem ; and the fortunes ...
... leaving the silences and solitudes he loved so well , he turned his face toward the larger tasks and responsibilities that awaited him . David heard it as he watched his father's flocks in the pastures near Bethlehem ; and the fortunes ...
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... leaving home . 27 This is the first of the crucial epochs that make or mar us . The pain of it leaves an ineradicable scar . Can I forget the last morning in the old home ? The prayer with the assembled household in the sitting- room ...
... leaving home . 27 This is the first of the crucial epochs that make or mar us . The pain of it leaves an ineradicable scar . Can I forget the last morning in the old home ? The prayer with the assembled household in the sitting- room ...
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Page 175 - A fool, a fool ! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool ; a miserable world ! As I do live by food, I met a fool, Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool. Good-morrow, fool, quoth I. No, sir, quoth he, Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.
Page 175 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 163 - Are there no foes for me to face ? Must I not stem the flood ? Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God ? 4 Sure I must fight, if I would reign ; Increase my courage, Lord ! I'll bear the toil, endure the pain, Supported by thy word.
Page 83 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 249 - Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold : Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Page 137 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable ; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words : Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 178 - No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool; The rod must heal the sin: but Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!
Page 158 - For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee : for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Page 19 - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul ioveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Page 138 - Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man : if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. 40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.