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... situated under the shade of a little grove of forest - trees , a short distance from the man- sion - house at Mount Vernon , and near the brow of the precipitous bank of the Potomack . illustrious visitor . Every moment or two she would ...
... situated under the shade of a little grove of forest - trees , a short distance from the man- sion - house at Mount Vernon , and near the brow of the precipitous bank of the Potomack . illustrious visitor . Every moment or two she would ...
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... situated about halfway " Friends , Brethren , COUNTRYMEN ! between the Cambridge colleges and Mount Auburn , on the road leading from Harvard university to Waltham . The house is a large wooden mansion , with spacious outbuildings and ...
... situated about halfway " Friends , Brethren , COUNTRYMEN ! between the Cambridge colleges and Mount Auburn , on the road leading from Harvard university to Waltham . The house is a large wooden mansion , with spacious outbuildings and ...
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... situated in the same direction , six miles from Lexington . Their route was undisturbed until their arrival at Lexington , when a drum was heard beating to arms , and a company of provincials were discov- ered . The British commander ...
... situated in the same direction , six miles from Lexington . Their route was undisturbed until their arrival at Lexington , when a drum was heard beating to arms , and a company of provincials were discov- ered . The British commander ...
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... situated Dutchess county , with their woody and picturesque on the west bank of the Hudson , a little south of the shores . All along these plains and shores are to be village of Newburgh , is one of the most interesting found other ...
... situated Dutchess county , with their woody and picturesque on the west bank of the Hudson , a little south of the shores . All along these plains and shores are to be village of Newburgh , is one of the most interesting found other ...
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... situated on the western bank of such a place , and giving a still deeper impression to the Potomack river , in Virginia , about fifteen miles the memento mori . Interspersed among the rocks , below the city of Washington , and eight ...
... situated on the western bank of such a place , and giving a still deeper impression to the Potomack river , in Virginia , about fifteen miles the memento mori . Interspersed among the rocks , below the city of Washington , and eight ...
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Page 480 - The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
Page 480 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 435 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 47 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 47 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States: for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage, their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Page 480 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare. And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 58 - ... between people, who, though separated by an ocean, and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood.
Page 405 - I take this method to request such of you as are true citizens and willing to enjoy the liberty I bring you, to remain still in your houses: — And those, if any there be, that are friends to the king, will instantly repair to the fort and join the hair-buyer General, and fight like men.
Page 483 - THE sun is bright, — the air is clear, The darting swallows soar and sing, And from the stately elms I hear The bluebird prophesying Spring. So blue yon winding river flows, It seems an outlet from the sky, Where waiting till the west wind blows, The freighted clouds at anchor lie.
Page 306 - Heaven, and glances at that divinely consoling proclamation, " come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest:" The ruin of the steeple is about thirty feet high, and mantled, to its very summit, with ivy.