Chambers's Pocket Miscellany, Volume 9W. and R. Chambers, 1854 |
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... afterwards procure the restoration of his wife and child . Though carried to Austria when little more than four years old , the previous life of the young Napoleon had been passed amid scenes of too striking a nature not to leave on his ...
... afterwards procure the restoration of his wife and child . Though carried to Austria when little more than four years old , the previous life of the young Napoleon had been passed amid scenes of too striking a nature not to leave on his ...
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... afterwards procure the restoration of his wife and child . Though carried to Austria when little more than four years old , the previous life of the young Napoleon had been passed amid scenes of too striking a nature not to leave on his ...
... afterwards procure the restoration of his wife and child . Though carried to Austria when little more than four years old , the previous life of the young Napoleon had been passed amid scenes of too striking a nature not to leave on his ...
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... Afterwards he summoned all his subjects together , and said to them : Gentlemen , it was and is your desire that I take a wife : I do it rather to please you , than out of any liking I have to matrimony . You know that you promised me ...
... Afterwards he summoned all his subjects together , and said to them : Gentlemen , it was and is your desire that I take a wife : I do it rather to please you , than out of any liking I have to matrimony . You know that you promised me ...
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... afterwards with some of her acquaintance to see the new marchioness ; when he called her by name , which was Griselda , and inquired where her father was . modestly replied : My gracious lord , he is in the house . ' He then alighted ...
... afterwards with some of her acquaintance to see the new marchioness ; when he called her by name , which was Griselda , and inquired where her father was . modestly replied : My gracious lord , he is in the house . ' He then alighted ...
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... afterwards a new fancy came into his head , and that was , to make trial of her patience by long and intolerable sufferings : so he began with harsh words , and an appearance of great uneasiness ; telling her that his subjects were ...
... afterwards a new fancy came into his head , and that was , to make trial of her patience by long and intolerable sufferings : so he began with harsh words , and an appearance of great uneasiness ; telling her that his subjects were ...
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Page 131 - Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where Age and Want sit smiling at the gate ; Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives.
Page 132 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame. Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor, makes all the history ; Enough, that virtue fill'd the space between ; Proved, by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 133 - 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 133 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
Page 64 - 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 37 - 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. Scarce less the cleft-born wild-flower seems to enjoy Existence, than the winged plunderer That sucks its sweets.
Page 132 - Is there a variance ? enter but his door, Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more : Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
Page 37 - Are still the abodes of gladness ; the thick roof Of green and stirring branches is alive And musical with birds, that sing and sport In wantonness of spirit; while below The squirrel, with raised paws and form erect, Chirps merrily.
Page 133 - One Spirit — his, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows. 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 - ... continued his flight. 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.