The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags, and Other LecturesDerby & Jackson, 1857 - 285 páginas William Henry Milburn was a blind Methodist clergyman. A friend of notables including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he was Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate fifty years later (1893 until his death in 1903). He preached and lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. |
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... father's house in Philadelphia . He was born in that city , Sept. 26 , 1823. In early childhood his eyes were injured ; the sight of one was lost irretrievably , and of the other , partially . From that day to this he has lived on ...
... father's house in Philadelphia . He was born in that city , Sept. 26 , 1823. In early childhood his eyes were injured ; the sight of one was lost irretrievably , and of the other , partially . From that day to this he has lived on ...
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... Father's will , for three- score years and ten of man's appointed time . " But what though the Sage's pen and Poet's song be not ours to utter and to wield ! Is not the man greater than the author ? Nor is theirs any ignoble lot who are ...
... Father's will , for three- score years and ten of man's appointed time . " But what though the Sage's pen and Poet's song be not ours to utter and to wield ! Is not the man greater than the author ? Nor is theirs any ignoble lot who are ...
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... father and the hus- band a heart ? Wife and children are near at hand to say good - bye , perhaps for ever . Tears overflow the eye , unused to weep . A hasty farewell , and he is gone . A toilsome march of six weeks , with five com ...
... father and the hus- band a heart ? Wife and children are near at hand to say good - bye , perhaps for ever . Tears overflow the eye , unused to weep . A hasty farewell , and he is gone . A toilsome march of six weeks , with five com ...
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... Doomsday Book ; yet its father - excellent and worthy man - began life as an obscure tailor , or shoemaker , or brick - layer , and by THE REAL YOUNG AMERICA . 43 the use of such 42 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS .
... Doomsday Book ; yet its father - excellent and worthy man - began life as an obscure tailor , or shoemaker , or brick - layer , and by THE REAL YOUNG AMERICA . 43 the use of such 42 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS .
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... father n the northern border of Kentucky , to look for the cows which had strayed into the woods . The coun- ry was infested by the savages ; so the boy picked his steps , and kept his rifle ready . A well - known scout , who had been ...
... father n the northern border of Kentucky , to look for the cows which had strayed into the woods . The coun- ry was infested by the savages ; so the boy picked his steps , and kept his rifle ready . A well - known scout , who had been ...
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Página 88 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Página 115 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 121 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Página 144 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement. From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Página 111 - Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so...
Página 111 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Página 116 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books...
Página 145 - Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly. Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity.
Página xix - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Página 71 - God will be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless.