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Page 71 - I shall, despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 2 - Extract from a Journal of Travels in North America; consisting of an Account of Boston and its Vicinity, by Alv Bey.
Page 66 - for further aid in support of Williams College and for the erecting of other buildings for the convenience of the institution and for sustaining a professor of the Oriental languages." The sum of $9,500 was realized from the last two townships. The legislature passed an act February 24, 1814, "for the Encouragement of Literature, Piety and Morality and the Useful Arts and Sciences...
Page 7 - God, the Lord of the worlds, the most merciful, the most gracious King of the day of judgment...
Page 17 - ... seem we are now undergoing ; for they insist upon it that there is nothing in this world but sorrow, misery and sin. The other party are less saturnine — they look upon man to be a pretty clever sort of a being naturally, with many good and some bad...
Page 77 - ... the surrounding country — all these natural beauties with the architectural simplicity of the buildings . . . combine to render this one of the finest scenes in the world — at least I have seen nothing surpassing it in all my travels. Bulfinch and his patrons were right in transforming this wilderness into the most attractive part of Boston. The public nature of the Common assured a perpetually open prospect; no one then dreamed the Charles River would ever do less than extend the view out...