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... reaching their home at midnight . In after years Jefferson used to recall the dreariness of such a house at the end of such a journey . The interior of the house presents many novel features of Jefferson's in- genuity . Beyond the ...
... reaching their home at midnight . In after years Jefferson used to recall the dreariness of such a house at the end of such a journey . The interior of the house presents many novel features of Jefferson's in- genuity . Beyond the ...
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... reached a modest line of white - washed cottages fronting the sea . At the door of one of these the young man tapped , and then , without waiting for a response , pressed down the latch and walked in . 25 An old silvery - haired woman ...
... reached a modest line of white - washed cottages fronting the sea . At the door of one of these the young man tapped , and then , without waiting for a response , pressed down the latch and walked in . 25 An old silvery - haired woman ...
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... reached them , he had never presented himself , and they had been forced to fill up the vacancy as best they could . Still , Mary and her grandmother hoped against hope , and looked out every morning with such eagerness that the kind ...
... reached them , he had never presented himself , and they had been forced to fill up the vacancy as best they could . Still , Mary and her grandmother hoped against hope , and looked out every morning with such eagerness that the kind ...
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... home , when the news reached us of his death by cholera . This blow prostrated his wife and she became . very ill . After some time , the doctors finding she did not improve suggested a sojourn in Italy , and Como as the best.
... home , when the news reached us of his death by cholera . This blow prostrated his wife and she became . very ill . After some time , the doctors finding she did not improve suggested a sojourn in Italy , and Como as the best.
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... reached his very haven of rest , John Huxford's mind became more filled with appre- hension than ever , and he became so deadly sick , that he had to sit down upon one of the beach benches which faced the cottage . An old fisherman was ...
... reached his very haven of rest , John Huxford's mind became more filled with appre- hension than ever , and he became so deadly sick , that he had to sit down upon one of the beach benches which faced the cottage . An old fisherman was ...
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Page 10 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 406 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 407 - In counterpoise ; now ponders all events, Battles and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight : The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam...
Page 121 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep...
Page 406 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 68 - Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; 3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Page 438 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 285 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who...
Page 407 - Heaven permits, nor mine, though doubled now To trample thee as mire : For proof look up, And read thy lot in yon celestial sign ; Where thou art weigh'd, and shown how light, how weak, If thou resist.
Page 214 - Dogs" as one of the most disagreeable of all employments — to work in a quarry. Bating the passing uneasiness occasioned by a few gloomy anticipations, the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the common lot. I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods — a reader of curious books when I could get them — a gleaner of old traditionary stories; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams, and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which men toil every day...