Supplement to the Connecticut Courant: Containing Tales, Travels, History, Biography, Poetry, and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles, Volume 3J.L. Boswell., 1832 |
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... receiving a piece of cake , had immediately disappeared . For three successive days the shephard renewed his search , and every night when he returned he found his dog had been at the cottage , and carried off bread , or cake . Knowing ...
... receiving a piece of cake , had immediately disappeared . For three successive days the shephard renewed his search , and every night when he returned he found his dog had been at the cottage , and carried off bread , or cake . Knowing ...
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... received a reluctant permission to stay , He was charged with the conveyance of a confirmed his suspicions as to its character . large sum of public money from New - Or- An aged man , was apparently , the only in- leans ; having made ...
... received a reluctant permission to stay , He was charged with the conveyance of a confirmed his suspicions as to its character . large sum of public money from New - Or- An aged man , was apparently , the only in- leans ; having made ...
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... received a wound in the hand , either by my own dirk or the knife of my adversary , which I had remained unconscious of until advertised by the blood which streamed from it . From the Asiatic Journal for February . VALLEY OF DEATH , IN ...
... received a wound in the hand , either by my own dirk or the knife of my adversary , which I had remained unconscious of until advertised by the blood which streamed from it . From the Asiatic Journal for February . VALLEY OF DEATH , IN ...
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... received the first rudiments of a was regularly matriculated at one of our classical education ; and in saying this ... receiving the honest , un- bought congratulations of his friends ; the fond embrace , christian counsel and parting ...
... received the first rudiments of a was regularly matriculated at one of our classical education ; and in saying this ... receiving the honest , un- bought congratulations of his friends ; the fond embrace , christian counsel and parting ...
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... received , and finally confirmed , among the former acquaintances and friends of It was from this period that his friends , their subject - still less shall I attempt to and Gordon himself , date the formation of portray the first ...
... received , and finally confirmed , among the former acquaintances and friends of It was from this period that his friends , their subject - still less shall I attempt to and Gordon himself , date the formation of portray the first ...
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Page 378 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Page 392 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Page 473 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 129 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Page 432 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Page 169 - He proved them all — the doubt, the strife, The faint perplexing dread, The mists that hang o'er parting life, All...
Page 129 - The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Page 129 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Page 56 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 385 - t is given To wake sweet Nature's untaught lays; Beneath the arch of heaven To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands.