The National Magazine, 1. köideAbel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1852 |
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... mother , and she died in giving him birth . He was born at New - Haven , Conn . , September 12 , 1775 , and committed by his dying parent to the care of her sister , the wife of a farmer in North Guilford . It is said that he was ...
... mother , and she died in giving him birth . He was born at New - Haven , Conn . , September 12 , 1775 , and committed by his dying parent to the care of her sister , the wife of a farmer in North Guilford . It is said that he was ...
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... mother lisp'd her prayer , Bent their swift pinions from the throne to greet Thy soul , and lead thee there . And some who left the way Of life while green , were there - to whom ' twas given To sink on its soft pastures after play , To ...
... mother lisp'd her prayer , Bent their swift pinions from the throne to greet Thy soul , and lead thee there . And some who left the way Of life while green , were there - to whom ' twas given To sink on its soft pastures after play , To ...
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... mother was of " a refined female nature , tremulously sensitive , " says Mr. Carlyle , " and strong chiefly on the side of the affections , and the graceful insights and activities dependent on these . " From her John Sterling derived ...
... mother was of " a refined female nature , tremulously sensitive , " says Mr. Carlyle , " and strong chiefly on the side of the affections , and the graceful insights and activities dependent on these . " From her John Sterling derived ...
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... mother - to him an excellent and well - loved mother . He could not hide his grief from his wife , and , in answer to her questions , gave the intelligence . " Poor old man ! " murmured his wife , " thinking of the old Edward Sterling ...
... mother - to him an excellent and well - loved mother . He could not hide his grief from his wife , and , in answer to her questions , gave the intelligence . " Poor old man ! " murmured his wife , " thinking of the old Edward Sterling ...
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... mother had been exposed , the hardships which had attended his infant life , produced this effect . Hans , the ... mother's love is ever most strongly shown to the child that needs her love , her care , her toils ; and beyond this ...
... mother had been exposed , the hardships which had attended his infant life , produced this effect . Hans , the ... mother's love is ever most strongly shown to the child that needs her love , her care , her toils ; and beyond this ...
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Page 253 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 111 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, And I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 112 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 112 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ! for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked...
Page 494 - Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges,...
Page 112 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 28 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 51 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 471 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Page 99 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And while for mercy on Christ they call, He set fire to the barn and burnt them all. " I' faith, 'tis an excellent bonfire ! " quoth he, " And the country is greatly obliged to me, For ridding it in these times forlorn, Of rats, that only consume the corn.