| Daniel Noyes Haskell - Canada - 1851 - 56 pages
...before the establishment of the modern means of communication that Cowper penned his familiar lines : " Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one." The writer occupied a seat between a French... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1852 - 218 pages
...said it is dark ; let but one drop of blood be spilt upon the canvass, and it becomes ' one red.' " ' Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, which had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.' " But you and my other South Carolina friends... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1852 - 588 pages
...mortal eye can separate them, or mark where one commences and another ends. And as upon these maps — " Lands intersected by a narrow frith, Abhor each other : Mountains interposed make enemies of nations, Who had else, like kindred drops, been mingled into one ;" so these shades of opinion, formalities... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1852 - 240 pages
...said it is dark ; let but one drop of blood be spilt upon the canvass, and it becomes ' one red.' " ' Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, which had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.' " But you and my other South Carolina friends... | |
| John Godfrey Saxe - 1852 - 200 pages
...geographic foes, Jfor envious streams run only to divide The hearts of brethren ranged on either side. * Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.' NOTE 5. Page 148. No pitying nymphs had gathered... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - Generals - 1852 - 582 pages
...said it is dark ; let but one drop of blood be spilt upon the canvass, and it becomes ' one red.' " ' Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, which had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.' " But you and my other South Carolina friends... | |
| 1852 - 460 pages
...question. The occasions of human alienation and estrangement are countless, and sometimes insignificant. " Lands, intersected by a narrow frith, abhor each other ; mountains interposed, make enemies of nations which had else, like kindred drops, been melted into one." But all those occasions take their rise... | |
| 1853 - 468 pages
...was an English not an American Poet who said — " Lands intersected by a narrow frith abhor each1 other ; mountains interposed make enemies of nations...had else like kindred drops been mingled into one." The sentiment is no doubt just, applied to many countries but certainly not to our own. And yet, so... | |
| John Godfrey Saxe - American poetry - 1853 - 200 pages
...repudiators' with much spirit, and lamented his losses in many excellent jests. NOTR 4. Page 146. * Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. ' NOTE 5. Page 148. JVo pitying nymphs had gathered... | |
| John Brown - 1854 - 660 pages
...same spirit to be traced even in our own times, both in public transactions and in private life. " Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other...— mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else, I .i kr kindred drops, been mingled into one."70 In opposition to this righteousness... | |
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