The Library of American BiographyHilliard, Gray, 1834 - United States |
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... attention on a moral truth , and he will find it spreading out and enlarg- ing beneath his view , till , what seemed at first as barren a proposition as words could express , be- comes an interesting and exciting truth , of mo- mentous ...
... attention on a moral truth , and he will find it spreading out and enlarg- ing beneath his view , till , what seemed at first as barren a proposition as words could express , be- comes an interesting and exciting truth , of mo- mentous ...
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... attention directed his mind , at he time when it was most open to receive such impressions , to the excellence of learning , and the elevating effect of a familiarity with the grand and beautiful of nature ; these tastes , thus early ...
... attention directed his mind , at he time when it was most open to receive such impressions , to the excellence of learning , and the elevating effect of a familiarity with the grand and beautiful of nature ; these tastes , thus early ...
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... attention at this time to that pursuit , which is now insepa- rably associated with his name . He tells us in his preface to his great work , that birds had engaged his attention from his childhood ; but he probably 14 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY .
... attention at this time to that pursuit , which is now insepa- rably associated with his name . He tells us in his preface to his great work , that birds had engaged his attention from his childhood ; but he probably 14 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY .
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Jared Sparks. engaged his attention from his childhood ; but he probably noticed them as parts of the scenery , not as subjects of particular interest and descrip- tion . His thoughts were given at this time al- most wholly to poetry ...
Jared Sparks. engaged his attention from his childhood ; but he probably noticed them as parts of the scenery , not as subjects of particular interest and descrip- tion . His thoughts were given at this time al- most wholly to poetry ...
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... attention to them ; but that , as Wilson was evi- dently no ordinary man , he should depart from his usual course , and vindicate the passages in question . Shortly after , Wilson went to Ayr- shire , to visit Burns , and he always ...
... attention to them ; but that , as Wilson was evi- dently no ordinary man , he should depart from his usual course , and vindicate the passages in question . Shortly after , Wilson went to Ayr- shire , to visit Burns , and he always ...
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Page 56 - I set about drawing it that same evening; and all the while the pantings of its little heart showed it to be in the most extreme agonies of fear. I had intended to kill it, in order to fix it in the claws of a stuffed owl ; but, happening to spill a few drops of water near where it was tied, it lapped it up with such eagerness, and looked...
Page 249 - Onawmanient, where all the woods were layd with ambuscado's to the number of three or foure thousand Salvages, so strangely paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not have shewed more terrible.
Page 226 - ... and a rattle in his hand. With most strange gestures and passions, he began his invocation, and environed the fire with a circle of...
Page 181 - Eagles feathers within a ridge of silver, richly garnished with gold and precious stones...
Page 380 - Jamestown, with her wild train, she as freely frequented, as her ftther's habitation ; and, during the time of two or three years, she next under God was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine, and utter confusion...
Page 242 - there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold.
Page 296 - Notwithstanding the eternal allseeing God did prevent him, and by a strange meanes. For Pocahontas, his dearest Jewell and daughter, in that darke night came through the irksome woods, and told our Captaine great cheare should be sent us by and by : but Powhatan and all the...
Page 176 - He was desirous of sending a communication to the commander of the garrison, but found no one bold enough to undertake so perilous an enterprise. Smith then communicated to him a plan of telegraphic intercourse, which he had before made known to Lord Eberspaught, anticipating that the chances of war would give rise to an emergency, in which a knowledge of it might be highly useful. By Kissell's order, Smith was conveyed at night to a mountain seven miles distant from the town, and communicated with...