Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Том 1,Часть 1Scribner, 1855 |
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... later , his name and virtues shaLL BE MADE CONSPICUOUS BY ITS LIGHT , and throughout all TIME ACCOMPANY ITS LUSTRE . ” JOSIAH QUINCY'S History of Harvard University , I. 6 . CYCLOPEDIA AMERICAN LITERATURE . 1 Ben Franklin PREFACE . IN.
... later , his name and virtues shaLL BE MADE CONSPICUOUS BY ITS LIGHT , and throughout all TIME ACCOMPANY ITS LUSTRE . ” JOSIAH QUINCY'S History of Harvard University , I. 6 . CYCLOPEDIA AMERICAN LITERATURE . 1 Ben Franklin PREFACE . IN.
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... history of the literature of the country involved in the pages of this work , is not so much an exhibition of art and invention , of literature in its immediate and philosophical sense , as a record of mental progress and cultivation ...
... history of the literature of the country involved in the pages of this work , is not so much an exhibition of art and invention , of literature in its immediate and philosophical sense , as a record of mental progress and cultivation ...
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... historical records , who furnished the supplies for the first presses , were Englishmen by birth , as they and their ... history . Harvard College , William and Mary , Yale , the College of New Jersey , King's College New York , the ...
... historical records , who furnished the supplies for the first presses , were Englishmen by birth , as they and their ... history . Harvard College , William and Mary , Yale , the College of New Jersey , King's College New York , the ...
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... history , the author has this apology : he has done as well and as much as he could , that whatever was worthy of a mention , might have it ; and if this collection of matters be not complete , yet he supposes it may be more complete ...
... history , the author has this apology : he has done as well and as much as he could , that whatever was worthy of a mention , might have it ; and if this collection of matters be not complete , yet he supposes it may be more complete ...
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... History of Connecticut . " THOMAS GODFREY From " The Prince of Parthia " • • 193 128 To ******* THOMAS COOMBE Poesy , from The Court of Fancy . " Song . Passage from the " Peasant of Auburn . " • 130 A Dithyramble on Wine . THOMAS ...
... History of Connecticut . " THOMAS GODFREY From " The Prince of Parthia " • • 193 128 To ******* THOMAS COOMBE Poesy , from The Court of Fancy . " Song . Passage from the " Peasant of Auburn . " • 130 A Dithyramble on Wine . THOMAS ...
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Стр. 112 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Стр. 93 - She has a strange sweetness in her mind and singular purity in her affections, is most just and conscientious in all her conduct; and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful if you would give her all the world, lest she should offend this Great Being.
Стр. 111 - My present friends are the children and grandchildren of the friends of my youth, who are now, alas, no more ! And I must soon follow them; for by the course of nature, though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor in amassing honey-dew on this leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy?
Стр. 169 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Стр. 112 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Стр. 35 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Стр. 114 - You promise fair; but, after a few months of good health, you will return to your old habits; your fine promises will be forgotten like the forms of last year's clouds.
Стр. 111 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably...
Стр. 220 - You must remember this was the next morning after we heard the horrible rumor of the cannonade of Boston. I never saw a greater effect upon an audience. It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that psalm to be read on that morning. " After this, Mr. Duche, unexpectedly to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.
Стр. 49 - I wist not what to wish, yet sure, thought I, If so much excellence abide below, How excellent is He that dwells on high!