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 - To have fellowship with another is to have things in common with him. Thus in Acts iv., 32, the first Christians were " of one heart and of 'one soul ; neither said any that aught of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
Pagina 103 - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul...
Pagina 91 - Sift. 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 288 - 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 182 - Sparges looked at the note, acknowledged it to be the handwriting of Washington, and said, ' Yes, there is a copy of it' ; and, suiting the action to the word, immediately produced it , and, what was still more curious, there happened to be an erasure and...
Pagina 299 - Payne, the senior major, to the exercising ground : he was on the sick-list, having lately returned from Florida. I found him a fine intelligent old soldier, and received from him much valuable information connected with the internal economy of his corps and the Florida war.
Pagina 77 - Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Where'er his various course has been, Must sigh to think how oft he found His warmest welcome at an inn." Had the gentle bard told us, that, in this sad...
Pagina 293 - ... listened to his manly and honourable opinions about Sir George Arthur, the acts of his own government, and the manner he had endeavoured to deal with the wretches whom he had detected trying to involve the two countries in war. I was greatly pleased to find that his opinions were an echo of what General Scott had so repeatedly and emphatically stated to me. Colonel Bankhead, who commands under the General, gave me most ample proof of the correctness of every thing he advanced : and of this I...
Pagina 65 - And take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne. Chorus. For auld lang syne, my friends, For auld lang syne ; We '11 take a cup of kindness yet For auld laug syne.

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