Supplement to the Connecticut Courant: Containing Tales, Travels, History, Biography, Poetry, and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles, Band 3J.L. Boswell., 1832 |
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... Indians under General St. Leger , raised the siege of Fort Schuyler , Capt . Grigg , of the New York line , obtained permission to hunt , accompained by a brother officer . On their return , they were suddenly fired upon by an ambush of ...
... Indians under General St. Leger , raised the siege of Fort Schuyler , Capt . Grigg , of the New York line , obtained permission to hunt , accompained by a brother officer . On their return , they were suddenly fired upon by an ambush of ...
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... Indians of the Mis- treacherous light , and with much difficulty , sissippi , our troops were concentrated near wound a devious way , through the woods , the point of danger , and Col. T. was ordered and reached the house . The ...
... Indians of the Mis- treacherous light , and with much difficulty , sissippi , our troops were concentrated near wound a devious way , through the woods , the point of danger , and Col. T. was ordered and reached the house . The ...
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... Indians . With this short Silence , then , as of death , reigned for a while digression , I will close this narrative ... Indian summer , that I made an excursion after game among a groupe of mountains , or rather on a link in the great ...
... Indians . With this short Silence , then , as of death , reigned for a while digression , I will close this narrative ... Indian summer , that I made an excursion after game among a groupe of mountains , or rather on a link in the great ...
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... INDIAN VILLAGE . THROUGH the deep forest's at ch of green There peal'd no hunter's shout- And lingering ' neath his leafy screen , The browsing deer look'd ont . Yon roofless cabins to the blast Return'd a hollow moan , And the lean fox ...
... INDIAN VILLAGE . THROUGH the deep forest's at ch of green There peal'd no hunter's shout- And lingering ' neath his leafy screen , The browsing deer look'd ont . Yon roofless cabins to the blast Return'd a hollow moan , And the lean fox ...
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... India , to a young of clothing which cause the individual to as chaplain , up the country , to whom Lord S - sume the constrained posture here alluded has promised a living in her own native north , on his return to Britain . THE VOICE ...
... India , to a young of clothing which cause the individual to as chaplain , up the country , to whom Lord S - sume the constrained posture here alluded has promised a living in her own native north , on his return to Britain . THE VOICE ...
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Seite 378 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Seite 392 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Seite 473 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain.
Seite 129 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Seite 432 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Seite 169 - He proved them all — the doubt, the strife, The faint perplexing dread, The mists that hang o'er parting life, All...
Seite 129 - The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Seite 129 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Seite 56 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Seite 385 - t is given To wake sweet Nature's untaught lays; Beneath the arch of heaven To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands.