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... Trumbull were both conspicuous during the American revolution alike as soldiers and as citizens ; and both found a refuge in England from the political troubles that distracted the emancipated States . Men of education and of energy ...
... Trumbull were both conspicuous during the American revolution alike as soldiers and as citizens ; and both found a refuge in England from the political troubles that distracted the emancipated States . Men of education and of energy ...
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... Trumbull , the artist , who resided for many years in England , whence he finally departed in the year 1816 , and whose name must be familiar to many of our readers . Mr. Trumbull was both an amiable and an extraordinary man ; 412 ...
... Trumbull , the artist , who resided for many years in England , whence he finally departed in the year 1816 , and whose name must be familiar to many of our readers . Mr. Trumbull was both an amiable and an extraordinary man ; 412 ...
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Trumbull was both an amiable and an extraordinary man ; not so much , perhaps , for his extreme efficiency in any particular portion of his career , as for the sound judgment , ready resources , high principle , and indefatigable ...
Trumbull was both an amiable and an extraordinary man ; not so much , perhaps , for his extreme efficiency in any particular portion of his career , as for the sound judgment , ready resources , high principle , and indefatigable ...
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... Trumbull , who had been for years an affluent merchant , lost in one season almost every vessel , and all the property which he had upon the ocean ; and found himself suddenly reduced from opulence almost to poverty . His eldest son ...
... Trumbull , who had been for years an affluent merchant , lost in one season almost every vessel , and all the property which he had upon the ocean ; and found himself suddenly reduced from opulence almost to poverty . His eldest son ...
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... Trumbull in the classics and other collegiate studies , rendered his existence monotonous from the absence of all emulative exertion . In Latin he had no com- petitor ; in Greek two only , one of whom subsequently became professor of ...
... Trumbull in the classics and other collegiate studies , rendered his existence monotonous from the absence of all emulative exertion . In Latin he had no com- petitor ; in Greek two only , one of whom subsequently became professor of ...
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Page 195 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday!
Page 191 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 195 - How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Page 447 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 195 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 193 - And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; So he shall open, and none shall shut; And he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 218 - Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement, but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 371 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 20 - COURAGE!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 194 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...