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... Major General , and Washington was appointed Lieutenant Gene- ral , and was to take the command when the occasion called him to the field . All the first young men of the country panted for office ; and among them Hampton applied for an ...
... Major General , and Washington was appointed Lieutenant Gene- ral , and was to take the command when the occasion called him to the field . All the first young men of the country panted for office ; and among them Hampton applied for an ...
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... Major Hamp- ton was so popular , that every one was desirous of enjoying his society , and he lived in a constant round of dissipation , The army was soon at his own , or at the table of others . disbanded , and he returned to social ...
... Major Hamp- ton was so popular , that every one was desirous of enjoying his society , and he lived in a constant round of dissipation , The army was soon at his own , or at the table of others . disbanded , and he returned to social ...
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... major was advised to secure her if he could - all believing that such a woman would make him an exemplary man ; and intimated that she should be ap- proached by cautious steps . He made up his mind to make the attempt and , as ...
... major was advised to secure her if he could - all believing that such a woman would make him an exemplary man ; and intimated that she should be ap- proached by cautious steps . He made up his mind to make the attempt and , as ...
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... major's taste . One of Hampton's friends — a scholar , who in a measure directed the reading of the young ladies , most of them being his friends or rela- tions - was , at times , invited to read some passages which he was pleased with ...
... major's taste . One of Hampton's friends — a scholar , who in a measure directed the reading of the young ladies , most of them being his friends or rela- tions - was , at times , invited to read some passages which he was pleased with ...
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Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. The major was now considered a reformed man -- and mothers cast their eyes upon him as an eligible match for their daughters . When the regular winter assemblies began , the major was elected Master of Ceremonies ...
Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. The major was now considered a reformed man -- and mothers cast their eyes upon him as an eligible match for their daughters . When the regular winter assemblies began , the major was elected Master of Ceremonies ...
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Page 173 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 173 - A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal.
Page 201 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 201 - But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross...
Page 28 - ... earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven.
Page 1 - Some unmark'd fibre, or some varying vein. Shall only man be taken in the gross ? Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss.
Page 206 - To caves bestrew'd with many a mouldering bone. And cells whose echoes only learn to groan — Where no kind bars a whispering friend disclose — No sunbeam enters, and no zephyr blows — He treads, iuemulous of fame or wealth, Profuse of toil, and prodigal of health...
Page 201 - Cast in his dart, which made three moidores light ; 'And, as he saw his darling money fail, Blew his last breath, to sink the lighter scale.
Page 206 - Where'er mankind and misery are found — O'er burning sands, deep waves, or wilds of snow, Thy HOWARD, journeying, seeks the house of woe.
Page 207 - Mercy through the gloom, And shows the prison, sister to the tomb ! — Gives to her babes the self-devoted wife, To her fond husband liberty and life ! — — The spirits of the good, who bend from high Wide o'er these earthly scenes their partial eye, When first, array 'd in Virtue's purest robe, They saw her Howard traversing the globe ; Saw round his brows her sun-like glory blaze In arrowy circles of unwearied rays ; Mistook a mortal for an angel-guest, And ask'd what seraph-foot the earth...