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Էջ vi
... young , and too much in need of every heart and hand , to regard these partial divisions , small as they were in actual amount , with indifference . The evil was greatly in- creased by the activity of the English in profiting by these ...
... young , and too much in need of every heart and hand , to regard these partial divisions , small as they were in actual amount , with indifference . The evil was greatly in- creased by the activity of the English in profiting by these ...
Էջ vii
... young republic to subjection . Congress named an especial and a secret committee , therefore , for the express pur- pose of defeating this object . Of this committee Mr. , the narrator of the anecdote , was chairman . In the discharge ...
... young republic to subjection . Congress named an especial and a secret committee , therefore , for the express pur- pose of defeating this object . Of this committee Mr. , the narrator of the anecdote , was chairman . In the discharge ...
Էջ ix
... young and unpractised among his own countrymen , by pictures drawn from a state of society so different from that to which he belonged . The writer , while he knew how much of what he had done was purely accidental , INTRODUCTION . ix.
... young and unpractised among his own countrymen , by pictures drawn from a state of society so different from that to which he belonged . The writer , while he knew how much of what he had done was purely accidental , INTRODUCTION . ix.
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... young ladies had again taken their seats beside the work- stand , while their aunt , Miss Jeanette Peyton , withdrew , to super- intend the preparations necessary to appease the hunger of their unexpected visiter . A short silence ...
... young ladies had again taken their seats beside the work- stand , while their aunt , Miss Jeanette Peyton , withdrew , to super- intend the preparations necessary to appease the hunger of their unexpected visiter . A short silence ...
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... young master , and imprinting on it a fervent kiss , Cæsar withdrew . The boy did not re - enter the room ; and the black himself , after some time , returned , just as the young British captain was exclaiming — " But who is this Mr ...
... young master , and imprinting on it a fervent kiss , Cæsar withdrew . The boy did not re - enter the room ; and the black himself , after some time , returned , just as the young British captain was exclaiming — " But who is this Mr ...
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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.