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... night it is lighted by a lamp through a ground- glass window in one corner . People eat and drink here the whole day long ; table is covered after table ; one meal - time relieves another . Ev- ery thing is rich and splendid . Yes ...
... night it is lighted by a lamp through a ground- glass window in one corner . People eat and drink here the whole day long ; table is covered after table ; one meal - time relieves another . Ev- ery thing is rich and splendid . Yes ...
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... night like consolatory spirit - voices , like the moonlight on the swell of the waves . Last night , when the sea was rough and there was even some danger , when every movable thing was tumbled about , and I thought of my home , and was ...
... night like consolatory spirit - voices , like the moonlight on the swell of the waves . Last night , when the sea was rough and there was even some danger , when every movable thing was tumbled about , and I thought of my home , and was ...
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... night we shall come into dangerous water . One of the great steamers , which goes between Europe and Amer- ica , struck amid the surf in the neighborhood of Halifax , and suffered considerable damage . But we must manage better than ...
... night we shall come into dangerous water . One of the great steamers , which goes between Europe and Amer- ica , struck amid the surf in the neighborhood of Halifax , and suffered considerable damage . But we must manage better than ...
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... me in that foreign land ; and that one faithful friend comes to meet me on the shore . That is good ! Good - night , dear little sister . I embrace you and mamma - kind greetings to relations and friends - and 10 HOMES OF THE NEW WORLD .
... me in that foreign land ; and that one faithful friend comes to meet me on the shore . That is good ! Good - night , dear little sister . I embrace you and mamma - kind greetings to relations and friends - and 10 HOMES OF THE NEW WORLD .
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... night was the end of any danger in our voyage ; for it was during a thick mist that we approached the shore and its dangerous surf . We were obliged every now and then to lie still . In the morning , however , we were at Halifax , and I ...
... night was the end of any danger in our voyage ; for it was during a thick mist that we approached the shore and its dangerous surf . We were obliged every now and then to lie still . In the morning , however , we were at Halifax , and I ...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1 Fredrika Bremer Visualização completa - 1853 |
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Página 157 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Página 157 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Página 158 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 157 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Página 158 - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Página 160 - ... to live in truth. Does this sound harsh to-day? You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine, and if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
Página 162 - I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Página 184 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 162 - Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness, that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party. Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep by a word or a look his real sympathy. I am equally baulked by antagonism and by compliance. Let him not cease an instant to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
Página 91 - Their inspiration, and perchance the best: They felt, and loved, and died, but would not lend Their thoughts to meaner beings; they...