Lives of American Merchants, Հատոր 2Office of Hunt's Merchant's Magazine, 1858 |
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Էջ 318 - We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Էջ 148 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, 0 ye my friends ; for the hand of GOD hath touched me.
Էջ 192 - But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Էջ 192 - My ground and belief is, that there is but one God and one mediator between God and man...
Էջ 401 - I considered, as a great public acquisition, the commencement of a settlement on that point of the western coast of America, and looked forward with gratification to the time when its descendants should have spread themselves through the whole length of that coast, covering it with free and independent Americans, unconnected with us but by the ties of blood and interest, and enjoying like us the rights of self-government.
Էջ 317 - I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.
Էջ 367 - ... and never so happy as when making happy those around him. The young loved him, and the reverence with which they gathered around him was tempered by the most confiding affection. He lived to be present at the laying of the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, in 1825 ; an occasion in which, as one of the survivors of that most memorable and important battle of the Revolution, he felt a deep personal interest. The excitements of that week, passed in Boston, brought on a paralytic attack,...
Էջ 191 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Էջ 249 - ... chose to study or read an opportunity of doing so without disturbance. The consequence was, that we had the most quiet and improving set of young men in the town. The few who did not wish to comply with the regulation went abroad after tea, sometimes to the theatre, sometimes to other places, but, to a man, became bankrupt in after life, not only in fortune, but in reputation ; while a majority of the other class sustained good characters, and some are now living who are ornaments to society,...
Էջ 332 - In 1808 he came to me, as my apprentice, bringing his bundle under his arm, with less than three dollars in his pocket, and this was his fortune. A first-rate business lad he was, but, like other bright lads, needed the careful eye of a senior to guard him from the pit-falls that he was exposed to.