The Sentimental Gleaner, from Esk Bank Academy to the Isle of Man

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ?Well aimed, whoever thou art Ministers, ye should be thankful for, nay court, inobtrusive information and suggestions, aiming at the good of the nation. Adieu ?I'm gone. Dear children, thoughtless withal, you do, indeed, fulfil the Scriptures?you take no thought for the morrow. Thoughtless creatures, ye...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ?Well aimed, whoever thou art Ministers, ye should be thankful for, nay court, inobtrusive information and suggestions, aiming at the good of the nation. Adieu ?I'm gone. Dear children, thoughtless withal, you do, indeed, fulfil the Scriptures?you take no thought for the morrow. Thoughtless creatures, ye little think what precious opportunities those are, which ye so ignorantly, and so wantonly, as it were, sport away?Alas alas think of the anxieties of your parents, and their expectations ?think of your teacher's important trust and responsibility; and may you never experience how severely neglected opportunities will, by and by, rise up in condemnation against yon Think of these things now, I pray you, my dear youths, and be roused out of this disgraceful lethargy, and alive to literary rivalship. The torch of rivalshlp once well lighted in your tender breasts, your teachers with raptures warmer, perhaps, than those of many a fond parent, see you hasten to redeem the time?see you determined to take the lead of each other in a generous literary career. bookseller of the age, who, from a fe.w scattered books, which he, at commencing, retailed in his cobler's shop, or at a stall, by diligence and address, swelled his stock to loO,000 Tolumes B f chapter{{Section 4THE RETROSPECT. Shall we not bring a good tale away with us ? Virtue claims the meed of praise. Virtue is active ?ever on the wing for good. Report speaks largely for her. A good report is a stimulus to virtue. Lady C. G, doubly rich, by being doubly useful This speaks much for thee. The poor and the once illiterate, do they lie down, and rise up, and forget to pray for their Benefactress ? May thy every morning shine bright upon thee, and thy sun go down without a cloud. May thy stor...