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... tell you similar tales ; or if a gentleman takes it into his head to imagine that his readers will be interested in his descriptions of the use of tobacco , and its disgusting consequences in such rough con- veyances as canal boats , or ...
... tell you similar tales ; or if a gentleman takes it into his head to imagine that his readers will be interested in his descriptions of the use of tobacco , and its disgusting consequences in such rough con- veyances as canal boats , or ...
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... 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 they 16 THE CHILDREN .
... 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 they 16 THE CHILDREN .
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... 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 wide- wasting destroyer , " summer complaint , " swept it away . This ...
... 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 wide- wasting destroyer , " summer complaint , " swept it away . This ...
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... tell on a people so jealous for liberty as are the Americans . It is melancholy to observe bright children , capable of all manner of impressions , well versed in the brief history of their own country , but utterly ignorant , so far as ...
... tell on a people so jealous for liberty as are the Americans . It is melancholy to observe bright children , capable of all manner of impressions , well versed in the brief history of their own country , but utterly ignorant , so far as ...
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... 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.
... 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 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