How to Do it |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
answer Ashteroths begin better boys and girls brother Capel Lofft CHAPTER church Clara course dance deal dear draw Dunster Duty performed Edmeston Ellen encyclopædia English English language father Ferguson five fool give glad habit HACKMATACK half Haliburton Haverhill Horace John Ledyard knew ladies Latin Laura learned listen live London Bridge look matter means Miss Winstanley morning mother Mount Adams never nice night Norman French paper party perhaps person ready Redgauntlet remember Republic of Venice ride Rollo Roman Catholic Church round Roundhead rule Sarah Saxon sentence sermon sing society speak Stephen Stones of Venice story suppose sure talk teach tell things tion tired told train vacation walk want to know words write written Young Folks young friends
Popular passages
Page 111 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 269 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In raininess made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 109 - No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs.
Page 110 - ... that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still flourished at Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca.
Page 110 - The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern when compared with the Papacy ; and the republic of Venice is gone, and the Papacy remains. The Papacy remains, not in decay, not a mere antique, but full of life and youthful vigour.
Page 110 - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
Page 88 - Entertaining unlimited confidence in your intelligent and patriotic devotion to the public interest, and being conscious of no motives on my part which are not inseparable from the honor and advancement of my country, I hope it may be my privilege to deserve and secure not only your cordial cooperation in great public measures, but also those relations of mutual confidence and regard which it is always so desirable to cultivate between members of coordinate branches of the Government.
Page 110 - The Catholic Church is still sending forth to the farthest ends of the world missionaries as zealous as those who landed in Kent with Augustin, and still confronting hostile kings with the same spirit with which she confronted Attila.
Page 101 - Upon questions of history I must refer you to Mr. Seward, for he is posted in such things, and I don't profess to be: but my only .distinct recollection of the matter is that Charles lost his head !