The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags, and Other LecturesDerby & Jackson, 1857 - Всего страниц: 285 William Henry Milburn was a blind Methodist clergyman. A friend of notables including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he was Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate fifty years later (1893 until his death in 1903). He preached and lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. |
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... possessions to any man - precious , especially , above all price , to him , The light that never was on sea or land ; The vision and the faculty divine , which floods , for its possessor , all things , visible and invisible , with its ...
... possessions to any man - precious , especially , above all price , to him , The light that never was on sea or land ; The vision and the faculty divine , which floods , for its possessor , all things , visible and invisible , with its ...
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... possession of the chairs nearest to the preacher . Mr. Milburn gave an address suitable to the occasion , full of eloquence and pathos , and was listened to throughout with the most intense interest . At the conclusion he stopped short ...
... possession of the chairs nearest to the preacher . Mr. Milburn gave an address suitable to the occasion , full of eloquence and pathos , and was listened to throughout with the most intense interest . At the conclusion he stopped short ...
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... families and forty armed men , he starts to take possession of his paradise . The teams are slowly laboring up the dif ficult side of Cumberland Gap , when , unexpected as a bolt from a cloudless heaven , an iron sleet.
... families and forty armed men , he starts to take possession of his paradise . The teams are slowly laboring up the dif ficult side of Cumberland Gap , when , unexpected as a bolt from a cloudless heaven , an iron sleet.
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... possessions has been written in blood . Well had the Indians named their choicest hunting grounds the " dark and bloody land . " Thus shall it be for the Americans , also , for many a sad year to come . For more than twenty years ...
... possessions has been written in blood . Well had the Indians named their choicest hunting grounds the " dark and bloody land . " Thus shall it be for the Americans , also , for many a sad year to come . For more than twenty years ...
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... possession of two hundred and thir- teen dollars , as the total receipts for his twenty - three years ' labor . And now let me give you some facts from the history of one of my own friends , whom I loved well - nigh as a father - one of ...
... possession of two hundred and thir- teen dollars , as the total receipts for his twenty - three years ' labor . And now let me give you some facts from the history of one of my own friends , whom I loved well - nigh as a father - one of ...
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Стр. 88 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Стр. 115 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Стр. 121 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Стр. 144 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement. From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Стр. 111 - Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so...
Стр. 111 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Стр. 116 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books...
Стр. 145 - Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly. Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity.
Стр. xix - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Стр. 71 - God will be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless.