Leisure Labors: Or, Miscellanies Historical, Literary, and PoliticalD. Appleton, 1858 - 408 pages |
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... America oppressed - struggling - imploring- was a theme more alluring than " the weightier matter of the law ; " and fancy , returned from the flaming walls and crimsoned rivers of Troy , found in the suf- ferings of Boston the living ...
... America oppressed - struggling - imploring- was a theme more alluring than " the weightier matter of the law ; " and fancy , returned from the flaming walls and crimsoned rivers of Troy , found in the suf- ferings of Boston the living ...
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... American colonies . Angry contests followed . In the interval he was succeeded by Lord Dunmore . Dunmore , already incensed , was still more impracticable and unapproach- able , and vastly more obstinate and imperious than even ...
... American colonies . Angry contests followed . In the interval he was succeeded by Lord Dunmore . Dunmore , already incensed , was still more impracticable and unapproach- able , and vastly more obstinate and imperious than even ...
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... American continent . It was the initiative step of the revolution , the one from which all that followed was traced , the beginning which led to the glorious end . This was the proposi- tion to the various colonial committees , that ...
... American continent . It was the initiative step of the revolution , the one from which all that followed was traced , the beginning which led to the glorious end . This was the proposi- tion to the various colonial committees , that ...
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... American history . Jefferson was not then a member ; but in March of 1775 he was , by general consent , added to the delegation from Virginia . A second career of ac- tion now opened before him . He had passed through the first ...
... American history . Jefferson was not then a member ; but in March of 1775 he was , by general consent , added to the delegation from Virginia . A second career of ac- tion now opened before him . He had passed through the first ...
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... America were men of compromise and moderation , an example which might be patterned with some profit by their descendants and successors . But the author was delighted with its passage , and " although , " says the Memoir , " out of ...
... America were men of compromise and moderation , an example which might be patterned with some profit by their descendants and successors . But the author was delighted with its passage , and " although , " says the Memoir , " out of ...
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Page 346 - Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea!" "O father! I see a gleaming light, O say, what may it be?" But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee.
Page 349 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 350 - The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise.
Page 350 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment, tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 350 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Page 338 - And with them the Being Beauteous,' Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven.
Page 347 - The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise.
Page 345 - Last night the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see ! " The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Page 383 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 314 - And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.