Works ....W. A. Townsend & Company, 1859 |
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... manner in which the great struggle of the nation , during the war of 1775 , had given a new and honorable direction to the thoughts and practices of multitudes whose time had formerly been engrossed by the most vulgar concerns of life ...
... manner in which the great struggle of the nation , during the war of 1775 , had given a new and honorable direction to the thoughts and practices of multitudes whose time had formerly been engrossed by the most vulgar concerns of life ...
Էջ viii
... manner he continued to serve his country in secret during the early years of the struggle , hourly environed by danger , and the constant subject of unmerited op- probrium . In the year Mr. was named to a high and honorable employment ...
... manner he continued to serve his country in secret during the early years of the struggle , hourly environed by danger , and the constant subject of unmerited op- probrium . In the year Mr. was named to a high and honorable employment ...
Էջ xi
... manner in which the actors are hurried off the scene . A great change has come over the country since this book was originally written . The nation is passing from the gristle into the bone , and the common mind . is beginning to keep ...
... manner in which the actors are hurried off the scene . A great change has come over the country since this book was originally written . The nation is passing from the gristle into the bone , and the common mind . is beginning to keep ...
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... manner that gave a military air to his appearance , and which was rather heightened by his erect and conspicuously graceful car- riage . His whole appearance was so impressive and so decidedly that of a gentleman , that as he finished ...
... manner that gave a military air to his appearance , and which was rather heightened by his erect and conspicuously graceful car- riage . His whole appearance was so impressive and so decidedly that of a gentleman , that as he finished ...
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... manner , lifting his eyes to the face of Harper , and lowering them quickly under his steady look , " there must be plenty in town ; but the war has made communication with the city , however innocent , too dan- gerous to be risked for ...
... manner , lifting his eyes to the face of Harper , and lowering them quickly under his steady look , " there must be plenty in town ; but the war has made communication with the city , however innocent , too dan- gerous to be risked for ...
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Էջ 135 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Էջ 202 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
Էջ 208 - And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier's a man; A life's but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Էջ 316 - Hush'd were his Gertrude's lips ! but still their bland And beautiful expression seem'd to melt With love that could not die ! and still his hand She presses to the heart no more that felt.
Էջ 106 - So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Էջ 329 - No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Էջ 381 - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly Like streamer long and gay, Till loop and button failing both, At last it flew away.
Էջ 190 - To fold his fingers, all in dread the while, Till Mister Ashford soften'd to a smile ; No more that meek and suppliant look in prayer, Nor the pure faith (to give it force), are there : — But he is blest, and I lament no more-] A wise good man contented to be poor.
Էջ 284 - I see a Johnny Birch come out of he grave — Johnny walk afore he buried." " Ah ! then he must have led an evil life indeed," said Hollister ; " the blessed in spirit lie quiet until the general muster, but wickedness disturbs the soul in this life as well as in that which is to come.
Էջ 149 - With this threat they withdrew to one of their usual places of resort, until darkness should again give them an opportunity of marauding on the community without danger of detection.