Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... perhaps , of some change of his circumstances ; for the other reasons assigned - viz . , the narrowness of his means and his large family , with the little encouragement afforded in that line of life to those educated for it must have ...
... perhaps , of some change of his circumstances ; for the other reasons assigned - viz . , the narrowness of his means and his large family , with the little encouragement afforded in that line of life to those educated for it must have ...
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... perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the prin- cipal future events of my life . " This fondness for books at length determined the father for the trade of a printer , although he had already one son ...
... perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the prin- cipal future events of my life . " This fondness for books at length determined the father for the trade of a printer , although he had already one son ...
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... perhaps reached his thirteenth or fourteenth year , he took a strong inclination to poetry , and wrote some little pieces . In this his brother James , " supposing it might turn to account , " ( alas for poor human nature ! ) encouraged ...
... perhaps reached his thirteenth or fourteenth year , he took a strong inclination to poetry , and wrote some little pieces . In this his brother James , " supposing it might turn to account , " ( alas for poor human nature ! ) encouraged ...
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... perhaps a little , as he states with candor , for dispute's sake . Collins seemed to get the better in the argu- ment , rather from superior eloquence and a greater flow of words than by the strength of his reasons . This did not ...
... perhaps a little , as he states with candor , for dispute's sake . Collins seemed to get the better in the argu- ment , rather from superior eloquence and a greater flow of words than by the strength of his reasons . This did not ...
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... perhaps have taught variety and readiness in the use of language . But it is not too late to make the experiment ; and some of the tales of the Spectator were translated into verse , and after a time , when the original was pretty well ...
... perhaps have taught variety and readiness in the use of language . But it is not too late to make the experiment ; and some of the tales of the Spectator were translated into verse , and after a time , when the original was pretty well ...
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Page 181 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 42 - To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: That God governs in the affairs of men.
Page 218 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 150 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 36 - Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut Street, eating my roll all the way, and coming round, found myself again at Market Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 42 - I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Page 153 - Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more contemplative and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt his favours to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented until I have explored, the western country and traversed those lines, (or great part...
Page 627 - ... where clearer flames glow round the frozen pole: or under southern skies exalt their sails, led by new stars and borne by spicy gales! For me the balm shall bleed, and amber flow, the coral redden, and the ruby glow, the pearly shell its lucid globe infold, and Phoebus warm the ripening ore to gold.
Page 13 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Page 19 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.