Three Visits to AmericaD. Douglas, 1884 - 377 Seiten |
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... taken the oppor- tunity of adding many fresh records not hitherto published . I do not pretend to offer any new in- formation about a country respecting which so much has been already written by abler pens than mine , but this addition ...
... taken the oppor- tunity of adding many fresh records not hitherto published . I do not pretend to offer any new in- formation about a country respecting which so much has been already written by abler pens than mine , but this addition ...
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... taken him , and all the fibres of his great nature were spent and quivering . He ended our conversation by assuring me that if he knew for certain he should die before six o'clock the next morning , he should go to rest happily . Within ...
... taken him , and all the fibres of his great nature were spent and quivering . He ended our conversation by assuring me that if he knew for certain he should die before six o'clock the next morning , he should go to rest happily . Within ...
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... taken place in England during the last fifty years , machinery having effected a complete revolution in our domestic economy , taking woman's work , in the lower branches of industry , out of the home into the manufactory ; the ...
... taken place in England during the last fifty years , machinery having effected a complete revolution in our domestic economy , taking woman's work , in the lower branches of industry , out of the home into the manufactory ; the ...
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... taken much by surprise at the unexpected signal ; to fire a gun and have the boys out on parade was the work of a moment , but to " place his guests , " and distinguish between their names , was quite another affair . He mixed them up ...
... taken much by surprise at the unexpected signal ; to fire a gun and have the boys out on parade was the work of a moment , but to " place his guests , " and distinguish between their names , was quite another affair . He mixed them up ...
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... taken as a fair specimen of the proceedings to be witnessed at the capital . To begin with , night sittings are the excep- tion , and not , as with us , the rule , and perhaps this might account for the hilarity which prevailed at the ...
... taken as a fair specimen of the proceedings to be witnessed at the capital . To begin with , night sittings are the excep- tion , and not , as with us , the rule , and perhaps this might account for the hilarity which prevailed at the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 64 - Observe me, Sir Anthony. - I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman; for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or Algebra, or Simony, or Fluxions, or Paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning...
Seite 64 - Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries.
Seite 50 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Seite 187 - I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice, and let mine handmaid Emma Smith receive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me...
Seite 349 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that over-sprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Seite 159 - It is said that women are tied down and abused ; that they are misused, and have not the liberty they ought to have ; that many of them are CHAP.
Seite 187 - And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment, she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord...
Seite 69 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Seite 3 - Tis as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,— 'Tis the natural way of living: Who knows whither the clouds have fled?