ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS;1859 |
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... object so impor- tant , and so much desired by the commander of her armies — and I know of no other mode of obtaining the information , than by assuming a disguise and passing into the enemy's camp . I am fully sensible of the conse ...
... object so impor- tant , and so much desired by the commander of her armies — and I know of no other mode of obtaining the information , than by assuming a disguise and passing into the enemy's camp . I am fully sensible of the conse ...
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... object of his mission , from the drawings dis- covered in his possession when taken by the enemy . Doubtless his ... objects of his enterprise . He then retraced his steps the way he came , encountered the same difficulties in passing ...
... object of his mission , from the drawings dis- covered in his possession when taken by the enemy . Doubtless his ... objects of his enterprise . He then retraced his steps the way he came , encountered the same difficulties in passing ...
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... object of so much affection ! In the simple words of one who knew them well , " It almost killed his parents . ” Though they approved of the spirit which induced their son to enter the army , they looked forward , with hopeful pride ...
... object of so much affection ! In the simple words of one who knew them well , " It almost killed his parents . ” Though they approved of the spirit which induced their son to enter the army , they looked forward , with hopeful pride ...
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... object . He got everything in readiness and then left the room just before the time of appointment , knowing Washing- ton's scrupulous punctuality , and his exaction of it in all with whom he had to do ; he waited in an adjoining room ...
... object . He got everything in readiness and then left the room just before the time of appointment , knowing Washing- ton's scrupulous punctuality , and his exaction of it in all with whom he had to do ; he waited in an adjoining room ...
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... objects that caught my infant eye . I endeavored to imitate them , and for several years the nicely sanded floors ( for carpets were then unknown in Lebanon ) were constantly scrawled with my rude attempts at drawing . About the same ...
... objects that caught my infant eye . I endeavored to imitate them , and for several years the nicely sanded floors ( for carpets were then unknown in Lebanon ) were constantly scrawled with my rude attempts at drawing . About the same ...
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Page 206 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace! peace!
Page 206 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 205 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?
Page 206 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Page 706 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Page 705 - Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here for evermore.
Page 670 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 706 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 206 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending...
Page 682 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.