Pioneer Collections, Հատոր 6The Society, 1907 |
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... passed away . Some of these recollections are of romantic interest . While these collections are from their very nature , miscellaneous and frag- mentary in their character , they will fall into harmony , and furnish to the future ...
... passed away . Some of these recollections are of romantic interest . While these collections are from their very nature , miscellaneous and frag- mentary in their character , they will fall into harmony , and furnish to the future ...
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... passed , in this same city , our members diminished and infirmities increasing . But our spirit is unimpaired , and the bond that unites us is only tightened . Comrades , you are welcome to Detroit . Col. Norvell's remarks were heartily ...
... passed , in this same city , our members diminished and infirmities increasing . But our spirit is unimpaired , and the bond that unites us is only tightened . Comrades , you are welcome to Detroit . Col. Norvell's remarks were heartily ...
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... passed into tradition together , their names are spoken tenderly , as children speak of honored ancestors . It needs no stretch of fancy to think of them as still gliding silently among the scenes of their earthly labors , and casting ...
... passed into tradition together , their names are spoken tenderly , as children speak of honored ancestors . It needs no stretch of fancy to think of them as still gliding silently among the scenes of their earthly labors , and casting ...
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... passed away . George Palmer Williams was born in 1802 , in Woodstock , Vermont , a state which has furnished many valuable sons to the service of this commonwealth . We cannot now learn much about his boyhood . There is no reason to ...
... passed away . George Palmer Williams was born in 1802 , in Woodstock , Vermont , a state which has furnished many valuable sons to the service of this commonwealth . We cannot now learn much about his boyhood . There is no reason to ...
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... passed under his tuition , and his ' success was marked . His life then , as afterwards , was too well regulated to ... passing over his intellectual worth , to dwell on the qualities that made him such a power morally and so- cially ...
... passed under his tuition , and his ' success was marked . His life then , as afterwards , was too well regulated to ... passing over his intellectual worth , to dwell on the qualities that made him such a power morally and so- cially ...
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Էջ 217 - His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear...
Էջ 27 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me
Էջ 105 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Էջ 126 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form...
Էջ 120 - The legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement ; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an agricultural school.
Էջ 395 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Էջ 441 - And so beside the Silent Sea, I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Էջ 32 - I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence, "that they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays.
Էջ 27 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.