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And it does not become a great nation , like the United States , possessing much
to rejoice in , and much to be thankful for , to condescend to covet flattery , or to
yield to irritation at the statements of passing observers ; - part of them haply ...
And it does not become a great nation , like the United States , possessing much
to rejoice in , and much to be thankful for , to condescend to covet flattery , or to
yield to irritation at the statements of passing observers ; - part of them haply ...
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... my remarks and details are : sincere and affectionate as are my feelings ;
accompanied by that respectful reserve which becomes a friend , pledged as
much by grateful regard as by sympathy to feel and act as becomes brotherly
love .
... my remarks and details are : sincere and affectionate as are my feelings ;
accompanied by that respectful reserve which becomes a friend , pledged as
much by grateful regard as by sympathy to feel and act as becomes brotherly
love .
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Strangers who bring with them the dulness of more weighty atmospheres ,
presently become enlivened , and even the drooping and half - clothed Milesian ,
recovers his wit and doubles his spirit amid the dry air , and under the pure blue
sky .
Strangers who bring with them the dulness of more weighty atmospheres ,
presently become enlivened , and even the drooping and half - clothed Milesian ,
recovers his wit and doubles his spirit amid the dry air , and under the pure blue
sky .
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that is not republican fashion ; but , with a becoming courage , looking straight
into your eyes , and extending the right hand for a cordial shake . Frank to answer
and ready to ask a question , you soon find you have not got a timid creature who
...
that is not republican fashion ; but , with a becoming courage , looking straight
into your eyes , and extending the right hand for a cordial shake . Frank to answer
and ready to ask a question , you soon find you have not got a timid creature who
...
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There is no fear of the child born under free institutions and destined to exercise
a freeman ' s privilege , becoming too tame by means of just parental discipline
— and it is certain that he will render the more healthful obedience to the laws of
...
There is no fear of the child born under free institutions and destined to exercise
a freeman ' s privilege , becoming too tame by means of just parental discipline
— and it is certain that he will render the more healthful obedience to the laws of
...
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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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