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... horse - shoes to the doors of their houses and barns , sure protections against witchcraft , many of which remain to the present day . The seat of empire of the wizard sachem now came into the possession of Wolfert Acker , one of the ...
... horse - shoes to the doors of their houses and barns , sure protections against witchcraft , many of which remain to the present day . The seat of empire of the wizard sachem now came into the possession of Wolfert Acker , one of the ...
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... horse shoes are of no avail . Wolfert Acker died and was buried , but found no quiet even in the grave : for if popular gossip be true , his ghost has occa- sionally been seen walking by moonlight among the old gray moss- grown trees of ...
... horse shoes are of no avail . Wolfert Acker died and was buried , but found no quiet even in the grave : for if popular gossip be true , his ghost has occa- sionally been seen walking by moonlight among the old gray moss- grown trees of ...
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... horse or cow , which they were driving off into captivity ; nor , when they wrung the neck of a rooster , did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George . To check these enormities , a confederacy was formed ...
... horse or cow , which they were driving off into captivity ; nor , when they wrung the neck of a rooster , did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George . To check these enormities , a confederacy was formed ...
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... horse shoe nailed to the door to keep off witches , seemed to have lost its power ; for as Diedrich approached , an old negro thrust his head all dabbled with flour , out of a hole above the water wheel , and grinned and rolled his eyes ...
... horse shoe nailed to the door to keep off witches , seemed to have lost its power ; for as Diedrich approached , an old negro thrust his head all dabbled with flour , out of a hole above the water wheel , and grinned and rolled his eyes ...
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... horse , which stood out from beneath a narrow- rimmed straw hat , stuck on the back of his head . The ex- plosions of laughter of these two varlets on meeting and ex- changing compliments , were enough to electrify the country round ...
... horse , which stood out from beneath a narrow- rimmed straw hat , stuck on the back of his head . The ex- plosions of laughter of these two varlets on meeting and ex- changing compliments , were enough to electrify the country round ...
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Page 57 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 102 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 114 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Page 334 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 342 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 36 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 34 - But in this genial interval, natu/e is in all her freshness and fragrance " the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
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Page 107 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Page 41 - town lots'," "water privileges," "railroads," and other comprehensive and soul-stirring words from the speculator's vocabulary, are never heard. The residents dwell in the houses built by their forefathers, without thinking of enlarging or modernizing them, or pulling them down and turning them into granite stores. The trees under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down, they might open new streets, and put money in their pockets....