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Page 227 - the old woman jumped up, as if suddenly inspired with new vigour, and cried out, with a tremulous voice, " Yes, ' My son was dead and is alive again ; was lost, and is found.' Come, let us be going; I think we can walk to London to-night. Haste, Haste! little maid. Here, give me the bundle. My
Page 11 - display'd, In emblematic figures show The merits of their trade That clients may infer from thence How just is their profession ; The lamb sets forth their innocence, The horse their expedition " 0 happy Britons, happy isle," Let foreign nations say, " Where you get justice without guile, And law without delay.
Page 366 - of the river. The monk, seated in his boat, waited the issue of an expedition of which he partook not the danger. Had the mother made too violent a resistance the Indians would have killed her; for everything is permitted when they go to the conquest of souls ; and it is children in particular they
Page 366 - Negro, going up to the Alabapo. Slightly bound, she was seated at the bow of the boat, ignorant of the fate that awaited her; but she judged, by the direction of the sun, that she was removed further and further from her hut and her native country. She succeeded in breaking her bonds, threw
Page 11 - two figures of a Horse and Lamb over the Inner Temple Hall. As by the Templars holds you go, The horse and lamb display'd, In emblematic figures show The merits of their trade That clients may infer from thence How just is their profession ; The lamb sets forth their innocence, The horse their expedition
Page 366 - Cassava. Resistance was impossible. The father was gone to fish, and the mother tried in vain to flee with her children. Scarcely had she reached the Savannah when she was seized by the Indians of the mission, who go to hunt men like the whites and negroes in Africa. Here the mother and her children were found, and dragged to the
Page 365 - In 1797 the missionary of San Fernando had led his Indians to the mouth of the Rio Guaviare, in one of those hostile incursions which are prohibited, alike by religion and the Spanish laws. They found, in an Indian hut, a Guahiba mother, with her children, two of whom were still infants. They were occupied in preparing the flour of the Cassava.
Page 366 - she judged, by the direction of the sun, that she was removed further and further from her hut and her native country. She succeeded in breaking her bonds, threw
Page 3 - PETER PARLEY. A CHRISTMAS SONG. CoME help me to raise Loud songs to the praise Of good old English pleasures: To the Christmas cheer, And the foaming beer, And the pantry's luscious treasures. To the stout sirloin, And the spiced wine, The boar's head grimly
Page 340 - that she had orders from her lord to keep it, and those orders she was determined to obey. On this reply, the cannon were drawn up, and the battering commenced, which continued,without intermission, from the Wednesday till the following Monday. The castle contained