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... say , than all other men . To your eloquent appeal in its behalf is pre - eminently due the credit of the progress already made in that noble work , and the favor with which the subject is universally received by our people from one ...
... say , than all other men . To your eloquent appeal in its behalf is pre - eminently due the credit of the progress already made in that noble work , and the favor with which the subject is universally received by our people from one ...
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... say or print of them , ) they ought not to be interfered with . I am not aware of any thing which ought to deprive the proprietor of Mount Vernon of the benefit of this principle , certainly not as far as I am concerned , indebted as I ...
... say or print of them , ) they ought not to be interfered with . I am not aware of any thing which ought to deprive the proprietor of Mount Vernon of the benefit of this principle , certainly not as far as I am concerned , indebted as I ...
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... says : - " Our Bacchannial Christmasses and New Years Tides with those Saturnalia and feasts of Janus , we shall find such near affinity between them , both in regard of time ( they being both in the end of December and on the first of ...
... says : - " Our Bacchannial Christmasses and New Years Tides with those Saturnalia and feasts of Janus , we shall find such near affinity between them , both in regard of time ( they being both in the end of December and on the first of ...
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... says they " Quarrel with minced pies , and disparage Their best and dearest friend , plum - porridge . " It was in allusion probably to this passage in Hudibras , that Dr. Johnson in his life of Butler remarks , " that we have never ...
... says they " Quarrel with minced pies , and disparage Their best and dearest friend , plum - porridge . " It was in allusion probably to this passage in Hudibras , that Dr. Johnson in his life of Butler remarks , " that we have never ...
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... says : " Service in the church ended , the gentlemen presently repair into the hall to break- fast with brawn , mustard , and malmsey . " At dinner " at the first course , is served in a fair and large boar's head upon a silver platter ...
... says : " Service in the church ended , the gentlemen presently repair into the hall to break- fast with brawn , mustard , and malmsey . " At dinner " at the first course , is served in a fair and large boar's head upon a silver platter ...
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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!