Wyandotté: Or, the Hutted Knoll ; A TaleGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 308 páginas |
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... danger of overlooking truth in a pseudo patriotism . Nothing is really patriotic , however , that is not strictly true and just , any more than it is paternal love to undermine the constitu- tion of a child by an indiscriminate ...
... danger of overlooking truth in a pseudo patriotism . Nothing is really patriotic , however , that is not strictly true and just , any more than it is paternal love to undermine the constitu- tion of a child by an indiscriminate ...
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... dangers , it was no unusual thing for them to sell out , or go on half - pay , when the wants of a family began to urge their claims , and to retire to their " patents , " as the land itself , as well as the instrument by which it was ...
... dangers , it was no unusual thing for them to sell out , or go on half - pay , when the wants of a family began to urge their claims , and to retire to their " patents , " as the land itself , as well as the instrument by which it was ...
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... dangers of battle and the camp ! " " I was younger when I actually went into battle , for then it was war ; now we have a peace that promises to be endless , and Bob will have abundance of time to cultivate a beard before he smells ...
... dangers of battle and the camp ! " " I was younger when I actually went into battle , for then it was war ; now we have a peace that promises to be endless , and Bob will have abundance of time to cultivate a beard before he smells ...
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... danger , wife . There are no Indians in this part of the country , who would dare to molest a settlement like ours . We count thirteen able - bodied men in all , besides seven women , and could use seventeen or eighteen muskets and ...
... danger , wife . There are no Indians in this part of the country , who would dare to molest a settlement like ours . We count thirteen able - bodied men in all , besides seven women , and could use seventeen or eighteen muskets and ...
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... danger of inroads , or hostile shot , while the air and view were both grateful and desirable . Some extra attention had been paid to the appearance of the meadows on this side of the Knoll , and the cap- tain had studiously kept their ...
... danger of inroads , or hostile shot , while the air and view were both grateful and desirable . Some extra attention had been paid to the appearance of the meadows on this side of the Knoll , and the cap- tain had studiously kept their ...
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Página 294 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Página 126 - High sight it is and haughty, while They dive into the deep defile ; Beneath the caverned cliff they fall, Beneath the castle's airy wall. By rock, by oak, by hawthorn -tree, Troop after troop are disappearing ; Troop after troop their banners rearing Upon the eastern bank you see.
Página 279 - Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat. All shall come back, each tie Of pure affection shall be knit again ; Alone shall Evil die, And Sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign. And then shall I behold Him, by whose kind paternal side I sprung, And her, who, still and cold, Fills the next grave — the beautiful and young.
Página 308 - ... images of guilt and woe, they so clear our judgment by profound analysis, •while they move our hearts by terror or compassion, that we learn to detect and stifle in ourselves the evil thought which we see gradually unfolding itself into the guilty deed.
Página 279 - All that of good and fair Has gone into thy womb from earliest time, Shall then come forth to wear The glory and the beauty of its prime. They have not perished — no ! Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat.
Página 307 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.