The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 13Abel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1858 - Periodicals |
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Page 14
... seen at the races held in different parts of the kingdom , a sport to which the Hungarians have a natural predilection ; and are readily distinguished by the dignity of their bearing and the disdainful regards they cast upon the crowd ...
... seen at the races held in different parts of the kingdom , a sport to which the Hungarians have a natural predilection ; and are readily distinguished by the dignity of their bearing and the disdainful regards they cast upon the crowd ...
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... seen my name lately tacked to so much of scurril- ity , that you hardly thought it meant your old friend of '76 . Indeed I did not know myself under the pens of either friends or foes . " In vindicating Jefferson against the abusive and ...
... seen my name lately tacked to so much of scurril- ity , that you hardly thought it meant your old friend of '76 . Indeed I did not know myself under the pens of either friends or foes . " In vindicating Jefferson against the abusive and ...
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... seen returning from his daily rides with- out bringing with him some sapling , or shrub , or bunch of flowers , for the adorn- ment of the infant capital . In the spring of 1809 , he made his last and happy retreat to his own Monticello ...
... seen returning from his daily rides with- out bringing with him some sapling , or shrub , or bunch of flowers , for the adorn- ment of the infant capital . In the spring of 1809 , he made his last and happy retreat to his own Monticello ...
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... seen , probably , the little value that Esau placed upon the spiritual blessings pertaining to the birth- right , and was therefore induced to offer in exchange for it so trifling a thing as a mess of pottage . It was like that spirit ...
... seen , probably , the little value that Esau placed upon the spiritual blessings pertaining to the birth- right , and was therefore induced to offer in exchange for it so trifling a thing as a mess of pottage . It was like that spirit ...
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... seen his son's cheek suffused with crimson ; and but for the infirmity of his age , he had detected the deceit in the faltering of those lips as they gave utter- ance to the monstrous falsehood : Because the Lord thy God brought it to ...
... seen his son's cheek suffused with crimson ; and but for the infirmity of his age , he had detected the deceit in the faltering of those lips as they gave utter- ance to the monstrous falsehood : Because the Lord thy God brought it to ...
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Page 152 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 222 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 221 - Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Page 47 - I know not the day of my death : now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison ; and make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat ; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Page 318 - I hang like a roof — The mountains its columns be. The triumphal arch, through which I march With hurricane, fire, and snow, When the powers of the air are chained to my chair, Is the million-coloured bow...
Page 148 - Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.
Page 431 - But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 138 - Thou struggles! to get free, I never will unloose my hold ! Art Thou the Man that died for me ? The secret of Thy love unfold ; Wrestling, I will not let Thee go, Till I Thy name, Thy nature know.
Page 473 - I thank Thee more that all our joy Is touched with pain ; That shadows fall on brightest hours ; That thorns remain ; So that earth's bliss may be our guide, And not our chain.
Page 22 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.