Irenæus Letters: Second SeriesNew York Observer, 1885 - 388 pages |
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... Rich .. 324 Dannemora for Ten Years ..... 284 Dead and Living , Thoughts concerning .. 362 Death of Presidents of the United States . 65 Dinner in Bath , England .... 370 Easthampton on Long Island . 180 Emerson and the Children ...
... Rich .. 324 Dannemora for Ten Years ..... 284 Dead and Living , Thoughts concerning .. 362 Death of Presidents of the United States . 65 Dinner in Bath , England .... 370 Easthampton on Long Island . 180 Emerson and the Children ...
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... Rich Widows .. 274 246 288 Kentucky Horse - sale ... Little Behindhand .. Loathing Light Bread ... Long Island Ministers .... 161 377 334 Longfellow's Songs Ended .. Maiden of the Mountain ... Methodist Friends , Some of my .. 80 175 ...
... Rich Widows .. 274 246 288 Kentucky Horse - sale ... Little Behindhand .. Loathing Light Bread ... Long Island Ministers .... 161 377 334 Longfellow's Songs Ended .. Maiden of the Mountain ... Methodist Friends , Some of my .. 80 175 ...
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... rich is heaven becoming ! How many well - known hands have been stretched out to welcome the coming of our brother ! Oh ! it is a goodly company which is fast gathering on high , to which each new - comer is welcomed with a joy in ...
... rich is heaven becoming ! How many well - known hands have been stretched out to welcome the coming of our brother ! Oh ! it is a goodly company which is fast gathering on high , to which each new - comer is welcomed with a joy in ...
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... rich vein of humor and an inexhaustible fund of incident and anecdote . Upon these he drew at fit- ting times and places , and always with success . Hence the head of an important literary institution , of which our friend was a trustee ...
... rich vein of humor and an inexhaustible fund of incident and anecdote . Upon these he drew at fit- ting times and places , and always with success . Hence the head of an important literary institution , of which our friend was a trustee ...
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... rich and va- ried column of religious journals in America ; one that has remained steadily faithful to the evangelical and catholic principles upon which it was founded , and has pursued the even tenor of its way through well - nigh ...
... rich and va- ried column of religious journals in America ; one that has remained steadily faithful to the evangelical and catholic principles upon which it was founded , and has pursued the even tenor of its way through well - nigh ...
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Page 193 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 214 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Page 145 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 82 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 27 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the Earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 214 - Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 84 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Page 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end...
Page 185 - Thou dost conduct thy people Through torrents of temptation : Nor will we fear, While thou art near, The fire of tribulation : The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By thee we shall Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 66 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.