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... side , and rapine and murder on no doubt , often present temptations not easily to be the other ? In 1744 , the ... side of the wharf in your river is prize to the captor ; but the part of her cargo that lies on that wharf , and along ...
... side , and rapine and murder on no doubt , often present temptations not easily to be the other ? In 1744 , the ... side of the wharf in your river is prize to the captor ; but the part of her cargo that lies on that wharf , and along ...
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... side by side for the reorganization of the Navy - Board . That with learned professors and prominent members , plan as far as it goes , and with some modifications , occupying chairs and places in our most celebrated is such as the ...
... side by side for the reorganization of the Navy - Board . That with learned professors and prominent members , plan as far as it goes , and with some modifications , occupying chairs and places in our most celebrated is such as the ...
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... side a ship completely rigged , with a motto , " I aspire to command , " and on the other side , " God is my guide , " with a wreath of laurel and a sextant . The second boy a sex- tant ; the third boy a quadrant ; the fourth boy a case ...
... side a ship completely rigged , with a motto , " I aspire to command , " and on the other side , " God is my guide , " with a wreath of laurel and a sextant . The second boy a sex- tant ; the third boy a quadrant ; the fourth boy a case ...
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... appreciated in other districts , In songs and fire - side stories . Now we fall Around a bison - bull , whose desperate mistricks , And irritation from the tyro's ball , Drive him to 1841. ] 53 Arabella : A Story of the Texian Revolution .
... appreciated in other districts , In songs and fire - side stories . Now we fall Around a bison - bull , whose desperate mistricks , And irritation from the tyro's ball , Drive him to 1841. ] 53 Arabella : A Story of the Texian Revolution .
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... side , with moccasons on his feet , attached to inspired writer , " Mysterious are thy ways , O Lord ! " which there projected an enormous pair of spurs , ( racafacs ) Occasionally there might be seen large gangs of deer in the rowels ...
... side , with moccasons on his feet , attached to inspired writer , " Mysterious are thy ways , O Lord ! " which there projected an enormous pair of spurs , ( racafacs ) Occasionally there might be seen large gangs of deer in the rowels ...
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Page 180 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 249 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave; Weel-pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love ! where love like this is found : O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare — ' If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare — One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms, breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that...
Page 180 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Page 249 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 108 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 108 - O dearest, dearest boy ! my heart For better lore would seldom yearn, Could I but teach the hundredth part Of what from thee I learn.
Page 107 - These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye ; But oft, in lonely rooms and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness sensations sweet, Felt in the blood and felt along the heart, And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration...
Page 125 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Page 118 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 326 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.