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Pagina 73
... morning , Mr. Maverick's negro woman , " says Josselyn , " came to my chamber , and in her own country language and tune sang very loud and shrill . Going out to her , she used a great deal of respect towards me , and would willingly ...
... morning , Mr. Maverick's negro woman , " says Josselyn , " came to my chamber , and in her own country language and tune sang very loud and shrill . Going out to her , she used a great deal of respect towards me , and would willingly ...
Pagina 107
... ware by sunrise the next morning , pass- ing over a distance of between sixty and seventy miles . The tradition of his strange habits , feats of strength , and wicked practical jokes is still com- mon The Border War of 1708 . 107.
... ware by sunrise the next morning , pass- ing over a distance of between sixty and seventy miles . The tradition of his strange habits , feats of strength , and wicked practical jokes is still com- mon The Border War of 1708 . 107.
Pagina 108
... morning of the 29th of the eighth month he was engaged in tak- ing home his horse , which , according to his cus- tom , he had turned into his neighbor's rich clover field the evening previous . By the gray light of dawn he saw a long ...
... morning of the 29th of the eighth month he was engaged in tak- ing home his horse , which , according to his cus- tom , he had turned into his neighbor's rich clover field the evening previous . By the gray light of dawn he saw a long ...
Pagina 111
... morning one of their orators made a long speech to him , and formally delivered him over to an old squaw , who took him to her wigwam and treated him kindly . Two or three of the young women who were car- ried away captive married ...
... morning one of their orators made a long speech to him , and formally delivered him over to an old squaw , who took him to her wigwam and treated him kindly . Two or three of the young women who were car- ried away captive married ...
Pagina 112
... morning , whether to laugh or cry . " The circumstance we are about to relate may serve as an illustration of the way in which the woof of comedy interweaves with the warp of tragedy . It occurred in the early stages of the * Ballad of ...
... morning , whether to laugh or cry . " The circumstance we are about to relate may serve as an illustration of the way in which the woof of comedy interweaves with the warp of tragedy . It occurred in the early stages of the * Ballad of ...
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Pagina 279 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 122 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Pagina 136 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
Pagina 214 - But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
Pagina 274 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Pagina 395 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 156 - Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
Pagina 43 - But on all this misery society looked with profound indifference. Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has, in our time, extended a powerful protection to the factory child, to the Hindoo widow, to the negro slave, which pries into the stores and watercasks of every emigrant ship, which winces at every lash laid on the back of a drunken soldier, which will not suffer the thief in the hulks to be ill fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavored to save the...
Pagina 246 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Pagina 393 - But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict.