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... youth whose generous and noble natures aspire to happiness , usefulness , and honor , the author tenders this work . They have so universally met him with kindness and confi- dence , as their teacher and friend , in the various ...
... youth whose generous and noble natures aspire to happiness , usefulness , and honor , the author tenders this work . They have so universally met him with kindness and confi- dence , as their teacher and friend , in the various ...
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... youth ; and all is pleasure there ! Thou soothest man , whene'er he hath eye of gloom - a brow of care . An 2. To youth , thou art the early morn , With " light , and melody , and song , " To gild his path , each scene adorn , And ...
... youth ; and all is pleasure there ! Thou soothest man , whene'er he hath eye of gloom - a brow of care . An 2. To youth , thou art the early morn , With " light , and melody , and song , " To gild his path , each scene adorn , And ...
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... youth age is dark and unlovely : it is like the glim- mering light of the moon when it shines through broken clouds , and the mist is on the hills , the blast of the North is on the plains , the traveler shrinks in the midst of his ...
... youth age is dark and unlovely : it is like the glim- mering light of the moon when it shines through broken clouds , and the mist is on the hills , the blast of the North is on the plains , the traveler shrinks in the midst of his ...
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... youth in whose halcyon bosoms there sleeps an ocean , as yet scarcely ruffled by the passions , which soon shall heave it as with a tempest's strength . Remember , that whatever station in life you may fill , these mortals , these im ...
... youth in whose halcyon bosoms there sleeps an ocean , as yet scarcely ruffled by the passions , which soon shall heave it as with a tempest's strength . Remember , that whatever station in life you may fill , these mortals , these im ...
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... youth , Unhurt , amidst the war of elements , The wreck of matter , and the crush of worlds . LESSON XXIII . THE WIFE . WASHINGTON IRVING . THE treasures of the deep are not so precio ! As are the concealed comforts of a man Locked up ...
... youth , Unhurt , amidst the war of elements , The wreck of matter , and the crush of worlds . LESSON XXIII . THE WIFE . WASHINGTON IRVING . THE treasures of the deep are not so precio ! As are the concealed comforts of a man Locked up ...
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Page 154 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land 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...
Page 146 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
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Page 226 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 145 - We have petitioned — we have remonstrated — we have supplicated — we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition, to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult ; our supplications have been disregarded ; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.
Page 208 - Hark! They whisper: Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
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Page 189 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.
Page 145 - Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation — the last arguments to which kings resort.