The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 33Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith E. Littell & T. Holden, 1838 - American periodicals |
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... turned out to be so mere a nullity , and were framed in a spirit so wholly inadequate to the exigen- cies of the occasion , -that it would be an idle waste of time and space to insert them ; they died still - born , like so many others ...
... turned out to be so mere a nullity , and were framed in a spirit so wholly inadequate to the exigen- cies of the occasion , -that it would be an idle waste of time and space to insert them ; they died still - born , like so many others ...
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... equi- noctial America had turned the attention of the Euro- pean sovereigns to the West . England , though scarcely recovered from the wars of the Roses , fol- lowed the general track , but the grand object of A SKETCH OF THE CANADAS . 25.
... equi- noctial America had turned the attention of the Euro- pean sovereigns to the West . England , though scarcely recovered from the wars of the Roses , fol- lowed the general track , but the grand object of A SKETCH OF THE CANADAS . 25.
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... turned out of their haunts , and chased away to the wilderness like wild beasts , acquire the habits of wild beasts ... turning away , esta- crowbar , and the sledge - hammer , and the lashing of blished themselves on the solitary banks ...
... turned out of their haunts , and chased away to the wilderness like wild beasts , acquire the habits of wild beasts ... turning away , esta- crowbar , and the sledge - hammer , and the lashing of blished themselves on the solitary banks ...
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... turned out , that she , poor lady , instead of being able In our opinion , it is worth a chapter of De Grammont . to afford countenance , stood in need of some one to " July 13th , 1663. Walking in the Pall Mall , I met countenance her ...
... turned out , that she , poor lady , instead of being able In our opinion , it is worth a chapter of De Grammont . to afford countenance , stood in need of some one to " July 13th , 1663. Walking in the Pall Mall , I met countenance her ...
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... turned out of their haunts , and chased boy running before , to conduct the leaders of the tear away to the ... turning away , esta- crowbar , and the sledge - hammer , -and the lashing of i blished themselves on the solitary banks of ...
... turned out of their haunts , and chased boy running before , to conduct the leaders of the tear away to the ... turning away , esta- crowbar , and the sledge - hammer , -and the lashing of i blished themselves on the solitary banks of ...
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Page 25 - Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the Present, I cling to the Past; When the eye is suffused with regretful tears, And shadows of things that have long
Page 26 - With the death-fraught firelock in my hand— The only law of the Desert Land! Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: Away—away in the Wilderness vast, Where the White Man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered
Page 74 - When geese and pullen are seduc'd, And sows of sucking pigs are chous'd. When cattle feel indisposition, And need th' opinion of physician ; When murrain reigns in hogs or sheep, And chickens languish of the pip ; When yeast and outward means do fail, And have no power to work on ale ; When butter does refuse
Page 280 - conflict between inclination and duty is over, and virtue and self-indulgence are the same. Some decline of his intellectual powers was perceptible to the friends of his earlier and more active days; but 'To things immortal time can do no wrong. And that which never is to die, for ever must be
Page 35 - sonorous voice the formula of Macbeth— 'Fill full ! I drink to the general joy of the whole table " This was followed by ' the King, God bless him ." and second came, ' Gentlemen, there is another toast which never has been nor shall be omitted in this house
Page 43 - been not long since, I think my heart will break. Lonely, aged, deprived of my family, all but poor Anne ; an impoverished, an embarrassed man, deprived of the sharer of my thoughts and counsels, who could always talk down my sense of the calamitous apprehensions which break the heart that must bear them alone.
Page 279 - in the name of God, and in the power of his might, till even American slavery, the vilest that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it. That He who has guided you from your youth up, may continue to strengthen you in this and all things, is the prayer of, dear sir, your affectionate servant, •February 24, 1791. 'My dear Sir,
Page 40 - Not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for edification, for building up or elevating, in any shape ! The sick heart will find no healing here, the darkly strugg-ling heart no guidance : the Heroic that is in all men no divine awakening voice. We say, therefore, that they do not found themselves on deep interests,
Page 75 - reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter. For a long time after he was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to
Page 76 - humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none. Oliver cried lustily. If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of churchwardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder* CHAPTER THE SECOND Treats of Oliver