Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General KnowledgeRedfield and Lindsay, 1836 |
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... Land Memory New England POETRY . 34 Nightingale and Glow - Worm 223 On leaving New York 22 Our Country's Call 345 Stanzas - by Mrs. Baxter 394 Song of the Feld 198 Temperance Daystar 12 To a Redbreast 27 The Knight's Epitaph 74 The Love ...
... Land Memory New England POETRY . 34 Nightingale and Glow - Worm 223 On leaving New York 22 Our Country's Call 345 Stanzas - by Mrs. Baxter 394 Song of the Feld 198 Temperance Daystar 12 To a Redbreast 27 The Knight's Epitaph 74 The Love ...
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... land , who had granted letters patent to the London to Virginia , and sold to the planters for about 150 and Plymouth companies , for the purpose of founding a colony in North America , Christopher Newport , sailed from London on the ...
... land , who had granted letters patent to the London to Virginia , and sold to the planters for about 150 and Plymouth companies , for the purpose of founding a colony in North America , Christopher Newport , sailed from London on the ...
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... land , And happiness and Freedom , hand in hand Went gayly round , and knocked at every door Hailing the rich and biding with the poor , While wondering nations watched our bright career , And looked , and longed to seek a refuge here ...
... land , And happiness and Freedom , hand in hand Went gayly round , and knocked at every door Hailing the rich and biding with the poor , While wondering nations watched our bright career , And looked , and longed to seek a refuge here ...
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... land . Gen. Putnam , and forty - six other hardy , en- terprising individuals from Massachusetts , Connecti- cut , and Rhode Island , led the way into the western wilderness , and were the first adventurers who com- menced a permanent ...
... land . Gen. Putnam , and forty - six other hardy , en- terprising individuals from Massachusetts , Connecti- cut , and Rhode Island , led the way into the western wilderness , and were the first adventurers who com- menced a permanent ...
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... land from Gaul . But there between a silver streamlet glides , And scarce a name distinguisheth the brook , Though rival kingdoms press its verdant sides . " 3. Seas and Oceans . These form a decided boundary to the greater number of ...
... land from Gaul . But there between a silver streamlet glides , And scarce a name distinguisheth the brook , Though rival kingdoms press its verdant sides . " 3. Seas and Oceans . These form a decided boundary to the greater number of ...
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Page 451 - But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
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Page 36 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Page 357 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 213 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by...
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Page 368 - Wide roams the Russian exile. Nought around Strikes his sad eye, but deserts lost in snow; And heavy-loaded groves; and solid floods, That stretch, athwart the solitary vast, Their icy horrors to the frozen main...