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... Possessed of a strong and active mind , he was enabled , with indefatigable industry , to acquire a good practical education . In the fourteenth or fifteenth year of his age he arrived in America , which he immediately determined to ...
... Possessed of a strong and active mind , he was enabled , with indefatigable industry , to acquire a good practical education . In the fourteenth or fifteenth year of his age he arrived in America , which he immediately determined to ...
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... possessed their unreserved confidence : they always spoke of him in terms of the highest approbation ; his connexion with them was the ground of a friendship , reci- procal , sincere , and lasting . He thus continued , growing in ...
... possessed their unreserved confidence : they always spoke of him in terms of the highest approbation ; his connexion with them was the ground of a friendship , reci- procal , sincere , and lasting . He thus continued , growing in ...
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... possessed courage without rashness - a constancy of spirit which could not be subdued a sound and intuitive judgment a promptitude of decision equal to the most trying emergencies - consummate skill - a generosity of soul which tempered ...
... possessed courage without rashness - a constancy of spirit which could not be subdued a sound and intuitive judgment a promptitude of decision equal to the most trying emergencies - consummate skill - a generosity of soul which tempered ...
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... possessed of a quickness of sensibility to the appearance of offence or impropriety , he never failed to express his regret , and make atonement for injuries prompted by an excess of feel , ing . He was just , charitable , and without ...
... possessed of a quickness of sensibility to the appearance of offence or impropriety , he never failed to express his regret , and make atonement for injuries prompted by an excess of feel , ing . He was just , charitable , and without ...
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... possessed none of the peculiarities of British genius . Their taste is completely continental ; the British classics , completely insular . Compare Shakspeare with Congreve , Milton with Dryden , Spencer with Pope , and the inquirer ...
... possessed none of the peculiarities of British genius . Their taste is completely continental ; the British classics , completely insular . Compare Shakspeare with Congreve , Milton with Dryden , Spencer with Pope , and the inquirer ...
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Seite 179 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Seite 174 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Seite 164 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Seite 174 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Seite 647 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Seite 33 - The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Seite 163 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Seite 516 - Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die...
Seite 60 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Seite 383 - ... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.