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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... visited us and lived among us , frequently enduring privation , and freely expending their talents and energies in the literary service of the country . It is an honor , as it is a most liberal advantage to America , that men like ...
... visited us and lived among us , frequently enduring privation , and freely expending their talents and energies in the literary service of the country . It is an honor , as it is a most liberal advantage to America , that men like ...
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... visits in Philadelphia . ALEXANDER HAMILTON The Fate of Major André . 888 · NOAH WEBSTER 474 · 891 NOAH WORCESTER 479 JOHN ARMSTRONG 480 Passage from Newburgh Letters . GEORGE R. MINOT 481 Treatment of the Acadians , 1755 , SARAH ...
... visits in Philadelphia . ALEXANDER HAMILTON The Fate of Major André . 888 · NOAH WEBSTER 474 · 891 NOAH WORCESTER 479 JOHN ARMSTRONG 480 Passage from Newburgh Letters . GEORGE R. MINOT 481 Treatment of the Acadians , 1755 , SARAH ...
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... visiting and preaching in Massachusetts Bay , where he was always re- ceived by admiring crowds . Hooker's Residence ... visits , the remain- der of his life was spent at the colony he had founded . He enjoyed throughout his career a ...
... visiting and preaching in Massachusetts Bay , where he was always re- ceived by admiring crowds . Hooker's Residence ... visits , the remain- der of his life was spent at the colony he had founded . He enjoyed throughout his career a ...
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... visited by Endicott , who caused the may - pole to be cut down , " and the name of the place was again changed and called Dagon . " The year following his return his house was searched on the charge of his having corn belonging to other ...
... visited by Endicott , who caused the may - pole to be cut down , " and the name of the place was again changed and called Dagon . " The year following his return his house was searched on the charge of his having corn belonging to other ...
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... visited England to secure the Confirmation of the Charter , in which he succeeded . Cotton had in the meantime replied , in 1647 , to the " Bloody Tenent " in his " Bloody Tenent Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb , " to ...
... visited England to secure the Confirmation of the Charter , in which he succeeded . Cotton had in the meantime replied , in 1647 , to the " Bloody Tenent " in his " Bloody Tenent Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb , " to ...
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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!