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like dwellers among persons of refined taste in a civilised state ? The same “ lady
, ” if it suited her to enter into minutiæ about home , could probably tell you similar
tales ; or if a gentleman takes it into his head to imagine that his readers will be ...
like dwellers among persons of refined taste in a civilised state ? The same “ lady
, ” if it suited her to enter into minutiæ about home , could probably tell you similar
tales ; or if a gentleman takes it into his head to imagine that his readers will be ...
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Each new babe is a new source of delight ; and 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 ...
Each new babe is a new source of delight ; and 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 ...
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It is very touching to listen to many parents , who will tell you it never entered their
apprehension that their first dear child was mortal , till , on being weaned , it fell
sick , or convulsions in teething , or that widewasting destroyer , “ summer ...
It is very touching to listen to many parents , who will tell you it never entered their
apprehension that their first dear child was mortal , till , on being weaned , it fell
sick , or convulsions in teething , or that widewasting destroyer , “ summer ...
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... country calling itself Christian , and essentially Christian in most of its
institutions , it is not easy to see ; while it is very easy to see that a cry raised
about encroachment on liberty of conscience was sure to tell on a people so
jealous for liberty ...
... country calling itself Christian , and essentially Christian in most of its
institutions , it is not easy to see ; while it is very easy to see that a cry raised
about encroachment on liberty of conscience was sure to tell on a people so
jealous for liberty ...
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... how delightful it would be , instead of senators and presidents , to tell them of
crowns , and palms , and harps , and of the city where there is no night , no pain ,
no difficult tasks , and no death . The idea also arises AND FREE ACADEMY . 39.
... how delightful it would be , instead of senators and presidents , to tell them of
crowns , and palms , and harps , and of the city where there is no night , no pain ,
no difficult tasks , and no death . The idea also arises AND FREE ACADEMY . 39.
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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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