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... LIGHT THE MODEST , AND NOTING RAPIDLY THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL TRAITS , WHICH TIME HAS SPARED ; TO THE END THAT INGRATITUDE , THE PROVERBIAL SIN OF REPUBLICS , MAY NOT ATTACH TO THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS ; AND THAT WHOEVER FEEDS THE ...
... LIGHT THE MODEST , AND NOTING RAPIDLY THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL TRAITS , WHICH TIME HAS SPARED ; TO THE END THAT INGRATITUDE , THE PROVERBIAL SIN OF REPUBLICS , MAY NOT ATTACH TO THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS ; AND THAT WHOEVER FEEDS THE ...
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... light , this literature may be looked at in its relations to the several portions of the country - the kind and extent of the productiveness varying with the character and opportunities of each region . When the different elements of ...
... light , this literature may be looked at in its relations to the several portions of the country - the kind and extent of the productiveness varying with the character and opportunities of each region . When the different elements of ...
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... light , which was snatched from the hours of night and repose . For the day was not his own , but dedicated to the service of his father and himself ; and had that service proved as fortunate , as it was faith- ful in him , as well as ...
... light , which was snatched from the hours of night and repose . For the day was not his own , but dedicated to the service of his father and himself ; and had that service proved as fortunate , as it was faith- ful in him , as well as ...
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... light , She lay obscure from most men's sight ; For while her watch hugg'd carnal ease , And loath'd the cross , she felt disease . Because they did God's rays contemn , And maumets * served , Grace fled from them . Then stars fell down ...
... light , She lay obscure from most men's sight ; For while her watch hugg'd carnal ease , And loath'd the cross , she felt disease . Because they did God's rays contemn , And maumets * served , Grace fled from them . Then stars fell down ...
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... light ! Wonders to come his ravished thoughts unfold , And thus the Heaven - instructed bard foretold : What glorious scenes , to ages past unknown , Shall in one summer's rolling months be shown . Auspicious omens yon bright regions ...
... light ! Wonders to come his ravished thoughts unfold , And thus the Heaven - instructed bard foretold : What glorious scenes , to ages past unknown , Shall in one summer's rolling months be shown . Auspicious omens yon bright regions ...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck George Long Duyckinck,Evert Augustus Duyckinck Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Cyclopaedia of American Literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck George Long Duyckinck,Evert Augustus Duyckinck Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Cyclopaedia of American Literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck George Long Duyckinck,Evert Augustus Duyckinck Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American ANNE BRADSTREET appeared Bay Psalm Book blood born Boston Byles called Cambridge Christ Christian Church collection colony conscience Cotton Mather dear death died discourse divine doth edition England English eyes faith fear Franklin give GOUT Governor grace hand Harvard Harvard College hath heart heaven Hist History holy honor Increase Mather Indians John John Adams John Cotton King King Philip's war land Latin learned letter liberty live London Lord Massachusetts mind minister never peace Philadelphia poem poet Portrait and Autograph preached President printed Psalms published reprinted Rhode Island Roger Williams salt-box Samuel says sent sermons Society soul spirit sweet thee things Thomas THOMAS HOOKER thou tion town truth unto verses Virginia volume William Winthrop writings written wrote Yale Yale College
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 202 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Seite 189 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Seite 188 - O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Seite 112 - I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Seite 338 - Here still a lofty rock remains, On which the curious eye may trace (Now wasted half by wearing rains) The fancies of a ruder race.
Seite 112 - Yet I ought to have charity for these unhappy people, when I consider, that with all this wisdom of which I am boasting, there are certain things in the world so tempting, for example, the apples of king John, which happily are not to be bought ; for if they were put to sale by auction, I might very easily be led to ruin myself in the purchase, . and find that I had once more given too much for the whistle.
Seite 245 - This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalizing his agricultural proceedings occupied most of his leisure hours within doors.
Seite 246 - Never spend your money before you have it. • 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap : it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
Seite 112 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Seite 203 - I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent.