The Mount Vernon PapersD. Appleton, 1860 - 490 |
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Strona vii
... lived , necessarily removed - Description of the house and of its changes - Reasons against removing it to another place - All the original portions of it preserved . 21 NUMBER FOUR . A SAFE ANSWER . Reuben Mitchell's education.
... lived , necessarily removed - Description of the house and of its changes - Reasons against removing it to another place - All the original portions of it preserved . 21 NUMBER FOUR . A SAFE ANSWER . Reuben Mitchell's education.
Strona ix
... portion of General Washington's Diary the property of Mr. J. Carson Brevoort- Recently printed for private circulation - Illness of Washington in the summer of 1759 - Tour in the East partly to recruit his health - A considerable portion ...
... portion of General Washington's Diary the property of Mr. J. Carson Brevoort- Recently printed for private circulation - Illness of Washington in the summer of 1759 - Tour in the East partly to recruit his health - A considerable portion ...
Strona xiii
... portion of Washington's Diary in the possession of J. K. Marshall , Esq.- Description of the manuscript and its contents - Circumspection of Washington in receiving foreigners - General appropriation bill for 1790 - Tour on Long Island ...
... portion of Washington's Diary in the possession of J. K. Marshall , Esq.- Description of the manuscript and its contents - Circumspection of Washington in receiving foreigners - General appropriation bill for 1790 - Tour on Long Island ...
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... portion remains as it was left by the fire of 1832 ; the spot where once a garden smiled ; And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; ' the grounds relapsing into the roughness of nature ; and THE MOUNT VERNON PAPERS . 3.
... portion remains as it was left by the fire of 1832 ; the spot where once a garden smiled ; And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; ' the grounds relapsing into the roughness of nature ; and THE MOUNT VERNON PAPERS . 3.
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... portions of the wrought marble mantel - piece pre- sented to General Washington by Samuel Vaughan , Esq . , of London , and forming the ornament of the fire - place in the dining - room , have been ruthlessly broken off ; and in one ...
... portions of the wrought marble mantel - piece pre- sented to General Washington by Samuel Vaughan , Esq . , of London , and forming the ornament of the fire - place in the dining - room , have been ruthlessly broken off ; and in one ...
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Strona 70 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him •where the stranger was : he replied, ' I thrust him away, because he did not worship thee.
Strona 69 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, creator of heaven and earth ? 7.
Strona 47 - Its road in the heavens was observed with exquisite skill by Flamstead and Cassini: and the mathematical science of Bernoulli, Newton, and Halley, investigated the laws of its revolutions. At the eighth period, in the year two thousand two hundred and fifty-five, their calculations may perhaps be verified by the astronomers of some future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness.
Strona 15 - But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Strona 460 - Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick canebrake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Strona 40 - MYSTERIOUS Night ! When our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Strona 24 - I failed entirely in arithmetic. At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business, which was that of a tallowchandler and soap-boiler ; a business to which he was not bred, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, because he found that his dyeing trade, being in little request, would not maintain his family. Accordingly, I was employed in cutting wicks for the candles, filling the moulds for cast candles, attending the shop, going of errands, &c. I disliked the trade, and had...
Strona 179 - If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." So I dined upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet.
Strona 177 - Lawfull heart, John, is it You? - how de do! Where in the world are you going with this woman? Who is she?
Strona 260 - You •will rejoice with me that the great nebula in Orion has yielded to the powers of our incomparable telescope!