A Run Through the United States, During the Autumn of 1840, Volume 1

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H. Colburn, 1841 - 272 pagina's

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Pagina 100 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Pagina 103 - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul...
Pagina 91 - EvpresseH fn 2Lffe. 1 So let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we profess ; So let our works and virtues shine, To prove the doctrine all divine. 2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad The honors of our Saviour, God, When the salvation reigns within, And grace subdues the power of sin. 3 Our flesh and sense must be denied, Passion and envy, lust and pride, While justice, temperance, truth, and love, Our inward piety approve.
Pagina 66 - Though we must part — some for a year, And some must part for aye, To memory ever shall be dear This gladsome day. Now let my proffered hand be met, Brother and friend, by thine, And take a grip of kindness yet For auld laug syne.
Pagina 127 - There shall be no more death,' — 'there shall be no more curse,' — 'neither shall there be any more pain ; for the old things are passed away, and all things are become new.
Pagina 275 - God! From this primeval altar — the green and virgin sod — The humble homage that my soul in gratitude would pay To Thee ! whose shield has guarded me through all my wandering way.
Pagina xi - Boundaries, viz., from the North-west Angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that Angle which is formed by a line drawn due North, from the source of the St. Croix River to the Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the North-westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Pagina 290 - And if thou said'st I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied...
Pagina 181 - States," an English book published about twenty-five years since, I do not remember to have seen elsewhere. " A Mr. Belknap, son of the historian of New Hampshire, was showing with exultation a kind note he had received, when a boy at school, from the great Washington. Belknap, the father, had died before the publication of his history, and his widow wrote to Washington, stating that the work had been completed before her husband's death, and that she purposed publishing it, to the best of her ability,...
Pagina 64 - Robbins, asked the blessing ; and there was a constant flow of wit and mirth till the dusk of evening. Expense of a ticket, $1.50. My seniors present ... 7. Song at * BK by William Biglow, 27 Aug., 1840. i. This day with heartfelt glee we greet, Most joyous of the year. When at the festive board we meet Our brethren dear; When sparkling wit and jocund song And temperate mirth combine, And grateful recollections throng Of auld land syne. Chorus. Of auld lang syne, my friends, Of auld lang syne; And...

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