Retrospect of Western Travel, Том 2Saunders and Otley, 1838 - Всего страниц: 178 |
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... proceeding to New- Orleans on business , and was merely resting on the eastern bank of the river on his way . I have seldom seen anything VOL . II . - C more touching than his brief letter to his parents , MISSISSIPPI VOYAGE . 17.
... proceeding to New- Orleans on business , and was merely resting on the eastern bank of the river on his way . I have seldom seen anything VOL . II . - C more touching than his brief letter to his parents , MISSISSIPPI VOYAGE . 17.
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Harriet Martineau. more touching than his brief letter to his parents , informing them that he was to be executed the next morning . Nothing could be quieter in its tone than this letter ; and in it he de- sired that his family would not ...
Harriet Martineau. more touching than his brief letter to his parents , informing them that he was to be executed the next morning . Nothing could be quieter in its tone than this letter ; and in it he de- sired that his family would not ...
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... letter was put into the cap- tain's hand from the shore which did not tend to raise his spirits . It told him of the death , by cholera , of a lady whom he had just brought up the river . The captain's brother , however , was better ...
... letter was put into the cap- tain's hand from the shore which did not tend to raise his spirits . It told him of the death , by cholera , of a lady whom he had just brought up the river . The captain's brother , however , was better ...
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... letters , from its remotest sections . In their deliberations the literary and moral wants of the various regions might be made known , and the means of supplying them devised . The whole should successively lend a helping hand to all ...
... letters , from its remotest sections . In their deliberations the literary and moral wants of the various regions might be made known , and the means of supplying them devised . The whole should successively lend a helping hand to all ...
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... letters of the parties would af- ford . I was never so tempted to impart a correspondence ; and it is not conceivable that any harm could arise from it beyond the mischief of violating the sacredness of private correspondence ; but this ...
... letters of the parties would af- ford . I was never so tempted to impart a correspondence ; and it is not conceivable that any harm could arise from it beyond the mischief of violating the sacredness of private correspondence ; but this ...
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Стр. 186 - Fool ! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic?
Стр. 206 - The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Стр. 208 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Стр. 29 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Стр. 91 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Стр. 208 - Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
Стр. 210 - Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these — but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust — some of them suicides.
Стр. 91 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue...
Стр. 209 - The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all...