A Literary History of AmericaC. Scribner's sons, 1900 - 574 pages |
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... civilised world , and that the first royal governor appointed thereunder was Sir William Phips , a devout , old - fashioned New England Calvinist , and a member of the very church over which the Mathers presided . Cotton Mather believed ...
... civilised world , and that the first royal governor appointed thereunder was Sir William Phips , a devout , old - fashioned New England Calvinist , and a member of the very church over which the Mathers presided . Cotton Mather believed ...
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... civilised world , and which met its final defeat seventeen years later at Waterloo . ― The names of Blenheim and the Nile suggest one more fact : each of these battles gave England a national hero . Marlborough we have already glanced ...
... civilised world , and which met its final defeat seventeen years later at Waterloo . ― The names of Blenheim and the Nile suggest one more fact : each of these battles gave England a national hero . Marlborough we have already glanced ...
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... civilisation . In 1757 he was chosen to succeed his son - in - law , Burr , as President of Princeton College . He died at Princeton , in consequence of inoculation for small- pox , on March 22 , 1758 . Beyond doubt , Edwards has had ...
... civilisation . In 1757 he was chosen to succeed his son - in - law , Burr , as President of Princeton College . He died at Princeton , in consequence of inoculation for small- pox , on March 22 , 1758 . Beyond doubt , Edwards has had ...
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... civilisation , and whose fashionable vices had run in men and women alike to more than Neronic excess . Calvin reiterated this theology in a Europe where the most potent family was the Medici , the Florentine race whose blood com- bined ...
... civilisation , and whose fashionable vices had run in men and women alike to more than Neronic excess . Calvin reiterated this theology in a Europe where the most potent family was the Medici , the Florentine race whose blood com- bined ...
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... civilised country can scarce be credited . In general they know nothing be- yond the particular branch of business which their parents or the parish happened to choose for them . This , indeed , they practise with unremitting diligence ...
... civilised country can scarce be credited . In general they know nothing be- yond the particular branch of business which their parents or the parish happened to choose for them . This , indeed , they practise with unremitting diligence ...
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Page 215 - But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate ! ) And, round about his home, the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Page 399 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen. We hear life murmur or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers.
Page 313 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; not to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Page 252 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 474 - There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. o CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O Captain 1 my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart 1 heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Page 361 - The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...
Page 91 - Fifty-five ! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way ! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson. Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'house on the hill.
Page 250 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed!
Page 197 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 98 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...