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... Close of the Year , To the Mocking Bird , 302 HENRY REED . JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . Biographical Sketch , Biographical Sketch , 302 Best Method of Reading , The Gospel , a Gospel of Liberty Poetical and Prose Reading , and Peace , 307 Tragic ...
... Close of the Year , To the Mocking Bird , 302 HENRY REED . JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . Biographical Sketch , Biographical Sketch , 302 Best Method of Reading , The Gospel , a Gospel of Liberty Poetical and Prose Reading , and Peace , 307 Tragic ...
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... Close , where he worked a year . He soon gained a high character for temperance and industry among his fellow - workmen , and began to be favorably noticed , when he was persuaded by his friend Denham , who was about to return home with ...
... Close , where he worked a year . He soon gained a high character for temperance and industry among his fellow - workmen , and began to be favorably noticed , when he was persuaded by his friend Denham , who was about to return home with ...
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... close of the year 1776 , where he was received most cordially by all classes . As we had not been successful in the campaign of 1776–7 , the French were loth to enter into an alliance with us ; but when they heard of the surrender of ...
... close of the year 1776 , where he was received most cordially by all classes . As we had not been successful in the campaign of 1776–7 , the French were loth to enter into an alliance with us ; but when they heard of the surrender of ...
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... close , and on the 15th of November , 1794 , in the seventy - third year of his age , he entered into his rest . Doctor Witherspoon's works were published after his death , in four volumes , with a memoir by the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers ...
... close , and on the 15th of November , 1794 , in the seventy - third year of his age , he entered into his rest . Doctor Witherspoon's works were published after his death , in four volumes , with a memoir by the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers ...
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... close of his very able and learned " Essay on Money as s Medium of Commerce ; with Remarks on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Paper admitted into general Circulation . " 3. The people of every nation will get the quantity 72 [ 1722 ...
... close of his very able and learned " Essay on Money as s Medium of Commerce ; with Remarks on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Paper admitted into general Circulation . " 3. The people of every nation will get the quantity 72 [ 1722 ...
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ... Charles Dexter Cleveland Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1859 |
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Side 616 - early promise sparkled for a moment and exhaled—are not wholly lost; he has not lived nor died in vain. Let these thoughts cheer us as we labor, and bear us up in our discouragements. " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow Is our destined end or way, But to act that each to-morrow
Side 665 - us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor
Side 670 - EXCELSIOR. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rang The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior
Side 346 - the pallid bust of Pallas, just above my chamber-door; . his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . the lamp-light, o'er him streaming, throws his shadow on the floor; . my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, [Shall be lifted—never more
Side 174 - dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping. " Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer
Side 500 - representative of those forests of Lebanon so celebrated in the Hebrew Scriptures. To the sacred writers, the cedar was the noblest of trees, the monarch of the vegetable kingdom. Solomon "spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall."" To the prophets it was the favorite emblem for
Side 515 - Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes
Side 394 - rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured—bearing for its motto no
Side 608 - bough In youth it shelter'd me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea, And wouldst thou hew it down ? Woodman, forbear thy stroke