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... course of twenty - five years . The frequent mention he made of me must have tired any one else ; but my vanity was wonderfully de- lighted with it , though I was conscious that not a tenth part of the wisdom was my own , which he ...
... course of twenty - five years . The frequent mention he made of me must have tired any one else ; but my vanity was wonderfully de- lighted with it , though I was conscious that not a tenth part of the wisdom was my own , which he ...
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... course of life . While the mornings are long , and you have leisure to go abroad , what do you do ? Why , instead of gain- ing an appetite for breakfast , by salutary exercise , you amuse yourself with books , pamphlets , or newspapers ...
... course of life . While the mornings are long , and you have leisure to go abroad , what do you do ? Why , instead of gain- ing an appetite for breakfast , by salutary exercise , you amuse yourself with books , pamphlets , or newspapers ...
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... course , be ex- tinguished in the waters that surround us , and leave the world in cold and darkness , necessarily producing universal death and destruction . I have lived seven of those hours , a great age , being no less than four ...
... course , be ex- tinguished in the waters that surround us , and leave the world in cold and darkness , necessarily producing universal death and destruction . I have lived seven of those hours , a great age , being no less than four ...
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... the bottom of the valley , and winds beautifully away from the sight until it finally vanishes in the be- wildered course of this immense chasm . On the bosom of this volume of mist appears to the eye 82 TIMOTHY DWIGHT .
... the bottom of the valley , and winds beautifully away from the sight until it finally vanishes in the be- wildered course of this immense chasm . On the bosom of this volume of mist appears to the eye 82 TIMOTHY DWIGHT .
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... course so little broken as to preserve the appear- ance of a uniform current , and yet so far disturbed as to be perfectly white . The sun shone with the clearest splendour , from a station in the heavens the most advantageous to our ...
... course so little broken as to preserve the appear- ance of a uniform current , and yet so far disturbed as to be perfectly white . The sun shone with the clearest splendour , from a station in the heavens the most advantageous to our ...
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Page 78 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 186 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 63 - Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However let us hearken to good advice, and something...
Page 45 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 214 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
Page 214 - ... cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village. "Alas! gentlemen...
Page 214 - It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order; and, having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for and whom he was seeking. The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors who used to keep about the tavern. "Well, who are they? Name them.
Page 164 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 211 - He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice.
Page 52 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.