Specimens of newspaper literature, Band 2

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Seite 85 - Through this day's life or death. This day, be bread and peace my lot: All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestowed or not; And let Thy will be done.
Seite 146 - And not the old ideas gone. Thou, stranger, that shalt come this way, No fraud upon the dead commit — Observe the swelling turf, and say They do not lie, but here they sit.
Seite 22 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Seite 84 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Seite 145 - IN spite of all the learned have said, I still my old opinion keep; The posture that we give the dead Points out the soul's eternal sleep. Not so the ancients of these lands; — The Indian, when from life released, Again is seated with his friends, And shares again the joyous feast.
Seite 146 - By midnight moons, o'er moistening dews, In habit for the chase arrayed, The hunter still the deer pursues, The hunter and the deer, a shade...
Seite 188 - Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse, Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Seite 88 - It found The EXPORTS of our country, a mere song, in value ; It hath left them worth Above SEVENTY MILLIONS of Dollars per annum. In one word, It found AMERICA disunited, poor, insolvent, weak, discontented, and wretched. It hath left HER United, wealthy, respectable., strong, happy and prosperous. Let the faithful Historian, in after times, say these things of .its Successor, if it can. And yet — notwithstanding all these services and blessings there are found Many, very many, weak, degenerate...
Seite 51 - Now enter the purlins, and drive your pins through ; And see that your joints are drawn home and all true. The purlins will bind all the rafters together: The strength of the whole shall defy wind and weather: For our roof we will raise, and our song still shall be, United as states, but as citizens free.
Seite 91 - that will do for a salamander." Russell, who was busy with his pen, looked up at the hideous figure, and exclaimed, " Salamander ! call it Gerrymander." The word became a proverb, and, for many years, was in popular use among the Federalists as a term of reproach to the democratic Legislature, which had distinguished itself by this act of political turpitude. An engraving of the " Gerrymander" was made, and hawked about the State, which had some effect in annoying the democratic party.

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