Life of Dorothea Lynde DixHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1890 - 392 pages |
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... land speculations in the State of Maine , in which State he purchased im- mense tracts , buying in one instance twenty thou- sand acres for the site of a single projected farming village , and becoming founder of the towns of Dixmont ...
... land speculations in the State of Maine , in which State he purchased im- mense tracts , buying in one instance twenty thou- sand acres for the site of a single projected farming village , and becoming founder of the towns of Dixmont ...
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... Land of Promise . None en- tered more earnestly into certain phases of this spir- itual rebirth , or hailed more rapturously its prophets of the type of Channing , than did Miss Dix . Not , probably , before the year 1821 did she resume ...
... Land of Promise . None en- tered more earnestly into certain phases of this spir- itual rebirth , or hailed more rapturously its prophets of the type of Channing , than did Miss Dix . Not , probably , before the year 1821 did she resume ...
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... land to the surrounding extent of the ocean made residence on it almost like being at sea . A visit to the tropics had been looked forward to by Miss Dix with intense delight . Now she would see with her own eyes an utterly new flora ...
... land to the surrounding extent of the ocean made residence on it almost like being at sea . A visit to the tropics had been looked forward to by Miss Dix with intense delight . Now she would see with her own eyes an utterly new flora ...
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... , her inner life was of too genuine a strain to resist the witness of the spirit , in whatsoever land or under whatsoever dispensation it was breathed abroad . In a letter to the writer of this biography , THE ISLAND OF ST . CROIX . 33.
... , her inner life was of too genuine a strain to resist the witness of the spirit , in whatsoever land or under whatsoever dispensation it was breathed abroad . In a letter to the writer of this biography , THE ISLAND OF ST . CROIX . 33.
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... land , so appalling in the scenes it opened up that from that day forward till extreme old age had left her helpless there was to be for her no more folding the hands . " Take thine ease , for all is well ! " - nay , much is most ...
... land , so appalling in the scenes it opened up that from that day forward till extreme old age had left her helpless there was to be for her no more folding the hands . " Take thine ease , for all is well ! " - nay , much is most ...
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Page 84 - Did you never, in walking in the fields, come across a large flat stone, which had lain, nobody knows how long, just where you found it, with the grass forming a little hedge, as it were, all round it, close to its edges, — and have you not, in obedience to a kind of feeling that told you it had been lying there long enough, insinuated your stick or your foot or your fingers under its edge and turned it over as a housewife turns a cake, when she says to herself, " It's done brown enough by this...
Page 304 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Page 272 - For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Page 84 - ... perhaps more horrible in their pulpy stillness than even in the infernal wriggle of maturity ! But no sooner is the stone turned, and the wholesome light of day let...
Page 290 - A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is for ever gone.
Page 76 - I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Page 304 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 50 - The Chief's eye flashed ; his plans Soared up again like fire. The Chief's eye flashed ; but presently Softened itself, as sheathes A film the mother eagle's eye When her bruised eaglet breathes : " You're wounded ! " •
Page 236 - The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Baron and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon.
Page 77 - Long before reaching the house, wild shouts, snatches of rude songs, imprecations and obscene language, fell upon the ear, proceeding from the occupant of a low building, rather remote from the principal building to which my course was directed. Found the mistress, and was conducted to the place which was called "the home" of the forlorn maniac., a young woman, exhibiting a condition of neglect and misery blotting out the faintest idea of comfort, and outraging every sentiment of decency. She had...