The New England Magazine, Volume 28New England Magazine Company, 1903 - New England |
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... interest or romance in the early explorations of the bold corsairs of the North in their dragon - headed vessels , the vain search of later navigators for a passage to the opulent Indies , the eager quest of mariners for the fabulous ...
... interest or romance in the early explorations of the bold corsairs of the North in their dragon - headed vessels , the vain search of later navigators for a passage to the opulent Indies , the eager quest of mariners for the fabulous ...
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... interest . The next year , at the in- stance of Hakluyt , and with Raleigh's consent , the merchants of Bristol sent out two vessels under Martin Pring , to gather more of the prized sassafras and to further explore the country ...
... interest . The next year , at the in- stance of Hakluyt , and with Raleigh's consent , the merchants of Bristol sent out two vessels under Martin Pring , to gather more of the prized sassafras and to further explore the country ...
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... interest aroused by Pring's favorable accounts led two years later to the expedition of George Weymouth , sent out by Southampton and others . In a single vessel , Wey- mouth sighted land near Cape Cod , but then bore away to the north ...
... interest aroused by Pring's favorable accounts led two years later to the expedition of George Weymouth , sent out by Southampton and others . In a single vessel , Wey- mouth sighted land near Cape Cod , but then bore away to the north ...
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... interest and im- portance , and form the first careful examination of the New England shores . His surveys , stretching over more than a thousand miles of sea- coast , were extensive and fairly ac- curate . In his " Voyages " ( 1613 ) ...
... interest and im- portance , and form the first careful examination of the New England shores . His surveys , stretching over more than a thousand miles of sea- coast , were extensive and fairly ac- curate . In his " Voyages " ( 1613 ) ...
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... interest and romance in- vest the entire period from its shad- owy beginning to its termination ; even in 1620 we find a hopeful seeker for gold - bearing isles and a passage through New England to the rich Indies . As yet all attempts ...
... interest and romance in- vest the entire period from its shad- owy beginning to its termination ; even in 1620 we find a hopeful seeker for gold - bearing isles and a passage through New England to the rich Indies . As yet all attempts ...
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Page 112 - Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 112 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 267 - I look for the new Teacher, that shall follow so far those shining laws, that he shall see them come full circle; shall see their rounding complete grace; shall see the world to be the mirror of the soul; shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart; and shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science, with Beauty, and with Joy.
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Page 266 - I SLEPT, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.
Page 112 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 265 - THOUGHT is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
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Page 266 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Page 327 - A Compleat Body of Divinity, in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism...