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... live like the children of this country , where we found ourselves so comfortable . The first thing was to submit to the cookery of the new father- land ; and when the roast - beef and the plum- pudding improved so nicely our little ...
... live like the children of this country , where we found ourselves so comfortable . The first thing was to submit to the cookery of the new father- land ; and when the roast - beef and the plum- pudding improved so nicely our little ...
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... lives ; are they not the animated features of American scenery - the spirit of each concentrated , and expressing the whole in the external and internal existence of this lost branch of the human family ? The rugged and threatening moun ...
... lives ; are they not the animated features of American scenery - the spirit of each concentrated , and expressing the whole in the external and internal existence of this lost branch of the human family ? The rugged and threatening moun ...
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... lives recurred to his memory , mingling with the bold landscapes of his native plains , Wannupay buried his face in his hands , and a groan escaped from the tumult of his feelings . But the heart of the chieftain did not succumb to ...
... lives recurred to his memory , mingling with the bold landscapes of his native plains , Wannupay buried his face in his hands , and a groan escaped from the tumult of his feelings . But the heart of the chieftain did not succumb to ...
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... live inshore you cannot imagine it , at least in all its beauty and strange mag- nificence . If you are a country resident , I have no doubt you have a very good idea of whirling leaves , broken boughs , and uprooted trees ; or , if you ...
... live inshore you cannot imagine it , at least in all its beauty and strange mag- nificence . If you are a country resident , I have no doubt you have a very good idea of whirling leaves , broken boughs , and uprooted trees ; or , if you ...
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... live five minutes in such a sea as is running there now . " " But can nothing be done ? " persisted Ade- laide ... lives with us , was so excited , that in an agony of grief he threw himself on the ground , exclaim- ing between his ...
... live five minutes in such a sea as is running there now . " " But can nothing be done ? " persisted Ade- laide ... lives with us , was so excited , that in an agony of grief he threw himself on the ground , exclaim- ing between his ...
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Page 148 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 148 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 148 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 6 - Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Page 171 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days...
Page 147 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 317 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing.
Page 171 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.
Page 220 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and -with songs, with tabret and with harp...
Page 148 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.