Chambers's Pocket Miscellany, Volumes 17-18W. and R. Chambers, 1854 |
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... hope to reach this point of my ambition , if I can appropriate to myself any of his high qualities , taking care to avoid the rocks on which he split . I should be lost to a proper sense of his memory , if I became the plaything of ...
... hope to reach this point of my ambition , if I can appropriate to myself any of his high qualities , taking care to avoid the rocks on which he split . I should be lost to a proper sense of his memory , if I became the plaything of ...
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... hope and aim of young Napoleon was the throne of France , on which he expected to be placed , not by a party in France , but by the general demand of the country , backed by the consent of the monarchs of Europe . To this secret idea ...
... hope and aim of young Napoleon was the throne of France , on which he expected to be placed , not by a party in France , but by the general demand of the country , backed by the consent of the monarchs of Europe . To this secret idea ...
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... hope of preserving life , ran with a speed at which he himself was surprised . He proceeded towards the Jefferson Fork , having to traverse a plain six miles in breadth , abounding with the prickly - pear , on which he was every instant ...
... hope of preserving life , ran with a speed at which he himself was surprised . He proceeded towards the Jefferson Fork , having to traverse a plain six miles in breadth , abounding with the prickly - pear , on which he was every instant ...
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... hope was , that the men had been rescued , though we could not well see how ; and we had the consolatory prospect of being able to stand it out a little longer , by keeping ourselves still on the same allowance . Another day , passed ...
... hope was , that the men had been rescued , though we could not well see how ; and we had the consolatory prospect of being able to stand it out a little longer , by keeping ourselves still on the same allowance . Another day , passed ...
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... hope that the seemingly light manner in which we have talked of it will not make our true purpose or sentiments be mistaken . If there be any one unfortunate enough to have begun the practice of exaggeration , let him think of Jack ...
... hope that the seemingly light manner in which we have talked of it will not make our true purpose or sentiments be mistaken . If there be any one unfortunate enough to have begun the practice of exaggeration , let him think of Jack ...
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Page 135 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God. The beauties of the wilderness are his, That make so gay the solitary place Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms That cultivation glories in, are his. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. He marks the bounds which winter may not pass, And blunts his pointed fury. In its case, Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ Uninjured, with inimitable art, And,...
Page 135 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 74 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Page 50 - They were frequently on the raft during the day, and were seen through the chinks by Colter, who was congratulating himself on his escape, until the idea arose that they might set the raft on fire. In horrible suspense he remained until night, when hearing no more of the Indians, he dived from under the raft, and swam silently down the river to a considerable distance, when he landed and travelled all night.
Page 135 - Rules universal nature. Not a flower But shows some touch in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivalled pencil. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the sea-side sands, The forms in which He sprinkles all the earth.
Page 48 - ... their traps at night, and took them up early in the morning, remaining concealed during the day. They were examining their traps early one morning, in a creek about six miles from that branch of the Missouri called Jefferson's Fork, and were ascending in a canoe, when they suddenly heard a great noise, resembling the trampling of animals ; but they could not ascertain the fact, as the high perpendicular banks on each side of the river impeded their view. Colter immediately pronounced it to be...
Page 39 - Try their thin wings and dance in the warm beam That waked them into life. Even the green trees Partake the deep contentment; as they bend To the soft winds, the sun from the blue sky Looks in and sheds a blessing on the scene.
Page 143 - Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods you mountain's sultry brow? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 39 - The rivulet Sends forth glad sounds, and tripping o'er its bed Of pebbly sands, or leaping down the rocks, Seems, with continuous laughter, to rejoice In its own being.
Page 50 - ... The foremost of the Indians, on arriving at the place, stopped till others came up to join them, when they set up a hideous yell. Every moment of this time was improved by Colter, who, although fainting and exhausted, succeeded in gaining the skirting of the cotton wood trees, on the borders of the fork, through which he ran, and plunged into the river.