The looking-glass for the mind, or, Intellectual mirror : being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories and interesting tales (1844)
it too. The spring time of our yearsIs soon dishonourd and defild in mostBy budding ills, that ask a prudent hand i To check them. But alas! none sooner shoots,If unrestraind, into luxuriant growth,Than cruelty, most devlish of them all.Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule,And righteous… … WILLIAM AND THOMAS; OR THE CONTRAST BE-TWEEN INDUSTRY AND INDOLENCE. In a village at a small distance from the metro-polls, lived a wealthy husbandman, who had two sons,William and Thomas, of whom the former was ex-actly a year older than the latter. On the day that the second son was born the…
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