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... Wild woodland , and savannahs wide and waste , - Rude country of rude dwellers . " SOUTHEY'S Madoc . POSSIBLY it may be unknown , except to a few antiquarians , that the beautiful town of Oxford , in Massachusetts , was originally a ...
... Wild woodland , and savannahs wide and waste , - Rude country of rude dwellers . " SOUTHEY'S Madoc . POSSIBLY it may be unknown , except to a few antiquarians , that the beautiful town of Oxford , in Massachusetts , was originally a ...
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... wilds of Ply- mouth . Persecution for righteousness ' sake , the abandonment of their own loved land , their perils on the ocean , and in the wilderness , those toils , pri- vations and hardships , with which they gladly pur- chased ...
... wilds of Ply- mouth . Persecution for righteousness ' sake , the abandonment of their own loved land , their perils on the ocean , and in the wilderness , those toils , pri- vations and hardships , with which they gladly pur- chased ...
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... wild gestures , that they were detailing some warlike expedition , and a horrible suspicion took hold of me . I feared that they had fallen like wolves upon our peaceful fold , and shuddered lest I might discover on their raiment ...
... wild gestures , that they were detailing some warlike expedition , and a horrible suspicion took hold of me . I feared that they had fallen like wolves upon our peaceful fold , and shuddered lest I might discover on their raiment ...
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... wild flowers . I felt that they were adorning the victim for the altar , yet I could not but look on them with kindness , for their guileless manners and simple ceremonies served to soothe apprehension , though they might not nourish ...
... wild flowers . I felt that they were adorning the victim for the altar , yet I could not but look on them with kindness , for their guileless manners and simple ceremonies served to soothe apprehension , though they might not nourish ...
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... wild emotion , like a reeling bark before the tem- pest . I strove to recall the instructions of my revered pastor , but Memory was a wreck , amid the billows of Fate . Before me was a steep hill , interspersed with rocks and thickets ...
... wild emotion , like a reeling bark before the tem- pest . I strove to recall the instructions of my revered pastor , but Memory was a wreck , amid the billows of Fate . Before me was a steep hill , interspersed with rocks and thickets ...
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Page 175 - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 192 - But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
Page 263 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Page 242 - WHAT are we set on earth for ? Say, to toil; Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines For all the heat o' the day, till it declines, And death's mild curfew shall from work assoil. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil, To wrestle, not to reign; and he assigns All thy tears over, like pure crystallines, For younger fellow-workers of the soil To wear for amulets. So others shall Take patience...
Page 239 - I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the mid-night air Beat upward to God's throne in loud access Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens.
Page 263 - Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death : of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased...
Page 15 - And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 249 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 211 - Reserving woes for age, their prime they spend.; All wretched, hopeless, in the evil. days, With sorrow to the verge of life they tend. Griev'd with the present, of the past asham'd, They live and are despis'd ; they die, nor more are nam'd.