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... 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 state- ments of passing observers ; -part of them haply ...
... 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 state- ments of passing observers ; -part of them haply ...
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... becomes a friend , pledged as much by grateful regard as by sympathy to feel and act as becomes brotherly love . A passage in the conclusion of Dickens's Ameri- can Notes - one of the best in the book , is quoted verbatim as the best ...
... becomes a friend , pledged as much by grateful regard as by sympathy to feel and act as becomes brotherly love . A passage in the conclusion of Dickens's Ameri- can Notes - one of the best in the book , is quoted verbatim as the best ...
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... 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 . It is very true that another cause exists . The new settler , as well as the ...
... 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 . It is very true that another cause exists . The new settler , as well as the ...
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... 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 needs your encouraging patronage ...
... 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 needs your encouraging patronage ...
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... 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 his country , and more reverential observance of the laws of God , by his being accustomed to ...
... 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 his country , and more reverential observance of the laws of God , by his being accustomed to ...
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Page 118 - 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 79 - 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 147 - 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 318 - 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