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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... passed away since that event , have cherished for the ' blind preacher ' the warmest personal regard and stand ever ready to support him by word and deed . " His election to the office of Chaplain to Congress , so honora- bly conferred ...
... passed away since that event , have cherished for the ' blind preacher ' the warmest personal regard and stand ever ready to support him by word and deed . " His election to the office of Chaplain to Congress , so honora- bly conferred ...
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... passed to and fro on the errands of their usual drudgery , and the children ran and gambolled hither and thither among the huts . The whoops and shouts of the young men rose to their ears , mingled with the musical laughter of the more ...
... passed to and fro on the errands of their usual drudgery , and the children ran and gambolled hither and thither among the huts . The whoops and shouts of the young men rose to their ears , mingled with the musical laughter of the more ...
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... passing from one side of it to the other , they must be exposed for a short time ; and a moment was enough for the unerring rifles of the spies . The Indians , being entirely ignorant of the number of their adversaries in ambuscade ...
... passing from one side of it to the other , they must be exposed for a short time ; and a moment was enough for the unerring rifles of the spies . The Indians , being entirely ignorant of the number of their adversaries in ambuscade ...
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... , and had resolved to adopt the bold measure of passing through the centre of their encampment as least hazardous , and the sequel proved the correctness of her judgment . They now directed their course for the A Narrow Escape,
... , and had resolved to adopt the bold measure of passing through the centre of their encampment as least hazardous , and the sequel proved the correctness of her judgment . They now directed their course for the A Narrow Escape,
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... squirrels . So it has passed into a proverb , that a Kentuckian is a dead shot on a squirrel's eye with a rifle at a hundred yards . THE AXE . BUT now there comes to be associated 44 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS . THE RIFLE.
... squirrels . So it has passed into a proverb , that a Kentuckian is a dead shot on a squirrel's eye with a rifle at a hundred yards . THE AXE . BUT now there comes to be associated 44 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS . THE RIFLE.
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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...
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