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And how often have I with shame contrasted my own long past concealment , nay
, almost negation of powerful sentiment , with this its beautiful outflow . The little
ones seem to partake from the first of the exciting effect of the climate . I know not
...
And how often have I with shame contrasted my own long past concealment , nay
, almost negation of powerful sentiment , with this its beautiful outflow . The little
ones seem to partake from the first of the exciting effect of the climate . I know not
...
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There were votes for establishing the Free Academy 19 , 404 , against it 3409 ,
giving the enormous and honourable majority in favour of instruction of 15 , 995
— and thus the scheme went on , and the beautiful new edifice was opened in
the ...
There were votes for establishing the Free Academy 19 , 404 , against it 3409 ,
giving the enormous and honourable majority in favour of instruction of 15 , 995
— and thus the scheme went on , and the beautiful new edifice was opened in
the ...
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It was not so easy not to say , “ Were you not sacrificing the solemn to the
picturesque , and diverting thought from the judgment - throne and the world of
glory , on behalf of the merely graceful and beautiful ? ” . CHAPTER V . “ THE
BOYS ...
It was not so easy not to say , “ Were you not sacrificing the solemn to the
picturesque , and diverting thought from the judgment - throne and the world of
glory , on behalf of the merely graceful and beautiful ? ” . CHAPTER V . “ THE
BOYS ...
Page 94
... as others , it does not prevent those who have means and appliances from
embracing a more extended range of study , or from exercising architectural taste
and raising beautiful buildings at many of their seats 94 COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS
.
... as others , it does not prevent those who have means and appliances from
embracing a more extended range of study , or from exercising architectural taste
and raising beautiful buildings at many of their seats 94 COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS
.
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taste and raising beautiful buildings at many of their seats of learning . Of these ,
the most beautiful - one wing of which is not yet finished — is the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington . It has been erected by the bequeathed wealth of Mr ...
taste and raising beautiful buildings at many of their seats of learning . Of these ,
the most beautiful - one wing of which is not yet finished — is the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington . It has been erected by the bequeathed wealth of Mr ...
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Page 116 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 77 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 145 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 316 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open
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| Title | America as I Found it America as I Found it, Mary Grey Lundie Duncan Collections speciales |
| Author | Mary Grey Lundie Duncan |
| Publisher | J. Nisbet and Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 380 pages |
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