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... writer willingly em- braces , while religious and social habits fall naturally within the range of her remark . The diversities between America and Great Britain are only sufficient to add the raciness of novelty to vi PREFACE .
... writer willingly em- braces , while religious and social habits fall naturally within the range of her remark . The diversities between America and Great Britain are only sufficient to add the raciness of novelty to vi PREFACE .
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... habit , progress , and insti- tution he is met , still identifies himself with his race , and claims to have sprung from the same Creator's hand . Born in what zone soever , he has a mind which will do some thinking work , and will have ...
... habit , progress , and insti- tution he is met , still identifies himself with his race , and claims to have sprung from the same Creator's hand . Born in what zone soever , he has a mind which will do some thinking work , and will have ...
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... habits of this in- teresting people , that access has been chiefly afforded , and with them chiefly that sympathies have been exchanged . Abhorring the vulgar soul that uses the hospitalities of a country to go home and criti- cise ...
... habits of this in- teresting people , that access has been chiefly afforded , and with them chiefly that sympathies have been exchanged . Abhorring the vulgar soul that uses the hospitalities of a country to go home and criti- cise ...
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... habits - any one who can " calculate " sees that , and the absence of charge is hinted at as a difficulty with the Common School teachers as well as with our own . There is a very becoming courage in the manner the pupils give out their ...
... habits - any one who can " calculate " sees that , and the absence of charge is hinted at as a difficulty with the Common School teachers as well as with our own . There is a very becoming courage in the manner the pupils give out their ...
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... habit of lax employment of sacred time , acquired by means of you who wish to do them good . Believe me , sir , in Scotland , your question would admit of but one answer . " This little colloquy indicates a degree of slight- ness with ...
... habit of lax employment of sacred time , acquired by means of you who wish to do them good . Believe me , sir , in Scotland , your question would admit of but one answer . " This little colloquy indicates a degree of slight- ness with ...
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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