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Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. CONTENTS . PAGE CHAPTER I . . . .
INTRODUCTORY , . . INTRODUCTORY , . . . . 1 CHAPTER II . THE CHILDREN , .
' : : . . 14 CHAPTER III . THE COMMON SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY , . . 30
CHAPTER IV .
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. CONTENTS . PAGE CHAPTER I . . . .
INTRODUCTORY , . . INTRODUCTORY , . . . . 1 CHAPTER II . THE CHILDREN , .
' : : . . 14 CHAPTER III . THE COMMON SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY , . . 30
CHAPTER IV .
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... my full confidence and esteem so readily and so pleasurably as to them ; never
can make again , in half a year , so many friends , for whom I seem to entertain
the regard of half a life . ” * CHAPTER II . THE CHILDREN . Our ancestors are the.
... my full confidence and esteem so readily and so pleasurably as to them ; never
can make again , in half a year , so many friends , for whom I seem to entertain
the regard of half a life . ” * CHAPTER II . THE CHILDREN . Our ancestors are the.
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THE CHILDREN . Our ancestors are the root of the tree , our aged the trunk , our
youths the branches , and our children the coronal of leaves and blossoms —
and who that anticipates the future prosperity of a country , can fail to cast a lively
...
THE CHILDREN . Our ancestors are the root of the tree , our aged the trunk , our
youths the branches , and our children the coronal of leaves and blossoms —
and who that anticipates the future prosperity of a country , can fail to cast a lively
...
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Most unlike to this is the sentiment of the American , both parent and child . The
little citizen seems to feel at a surprisingly early age that he has a part to act on
the stage of the world , and is willing enough to act a little before his time . And
the ...
Most unlike to this is the sentiment of the American , both parent and child . The
little citizen seems to feel at a surprisingly early age that he has a part to act on
the stage of the world , and is willing enough to act a little before his time . And
the ...
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... should the number surpass that of a common family , you cannot but smile in
pleasant emotion with the father who will tell you that he has the round dozen , or
he can produce you “ any quantity ” of little ones ; and then 16 THE CHILDREN .
... should the number surpass that of a common family , you cannot but smile in
pleasant emotion with the father who will tell you that he has the round dozen , or
he can produce you “ any quantity ” of little ones ; and then 16 THE CHILDREN .
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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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