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... feel as we may upon it , proclaim us brethren . Are there not the institu- tions and aspirations of freemen ? Are there not the mutual efforts of industrious and ingenious men ? Have we not the raw material in the one country , and the ...
... feel as we may upon it , proclaim us brethren . Are there not the institu- tions and aspirations of freemen ? Are there not the mutual efforts of industrious and ingenious men ? Have we not the raw material in the one country , and the ...
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... feel and act as becomes brotherly love . A passage in the conclusion of Dickens's Ameri- can Notes - one of the best in the book , is quoted verbatim as the best expression of my own senti- ments , only adding to " cultivation and ...
... feel and act as becomes brotherly love . A passage in the conclusion of Dickens's Ameri- can Notes - one of the best in the book , is quoted verbatim as the best expression of my own senti- ments , only adding to " cultivation and ...
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... feel that the nursery and schoolroom are their proper spheres of action , and that they are only brought out at times , as it were , to be shewn to particular friends . Scotch children are bashful and awkward , and as if constitution or ...
... feel that the nursery and schoolroom are their proper spheres of action , and that they are only brought out at times , as it were , to be shewn to particular friends . Scotch children are bashful and awkward , and as if constitution or ...
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... 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 parents , full of frank , simple emotion , bring their little treasure under notice ...
... 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 parents , full of frank , simple emotion , bring their little treasure under notice ...
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... feels that there is room enough and food enough for all ; so that a man does not look on his enlarging family with an eye of care , and cast about , as in " the old country , " for openings through which each may make standing- room ...
... feels that there is room enough and food enough for all ; so that a man does not look on his enlarging family with an eye of care , and cast about , as in " the old country , " for openings through which each may make standing- room ...
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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