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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... observed to recline him- self on the floor , near the partition where his baggage was laid which he used as a pillow . Watching his movoments he was seen exam- ining the Colonel's saddlebags rather famil- iarly . This , however , he did ...
... observed to recline him- self on the floor , near the partition where his baggage was laid which he used as a pillow . Watching his movoments he was seen exam- ining the Colonel's saddlebags rather famil- iarly . This , however , he did ...
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... observed the strictest neutrality holiest religious principle . And by the force towards the European belligerents , and la- of character , he rose in the confidence , ad- boured to convince his fellow - citizens and miration and ...
... observed the strictest neutrality holiest religious principle . And by the force towards the European belligerents , and la- of character , he rose in the confidence , ad- boured to convince his fellow - citizens and miration and ...
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... observed several very beautiful dwellings , vanced towards her , and without deeming it and being a Yankee , was not long in gratify necessary to ask the cause of her sudden in- ing his curiosity to know their occupants -- disposition ...
... observed several very beautiful dwellings , vanced towards her , and without deeming it and being a Yankee , was not long in gratify necessary to ask the cause of her sudden in- ing his curiosity to know their occupants -- disposition ...
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... observed a field of high strong grass , walking a few miles , and taking a drink of to which I proceeded , and after pulling water I got a little refreshed . The general enough to place under and over me , I re - appearance of the ...
... observed a field of high strong grass , walking a few miles , and taking a drink of to which I proceeded , and after pulling water I got a little refreshed . The general enough to place under and over me , I re - appearance of the ...
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... observed a quantity of smalt fish ; but had no means of catching any , or I should have made a Sandwich Island meal . There was , however , an abundant supply of wild cherries , on which I made a hearty supper . I slept on the bank of ...
... observed a quantity of smalt fish ; but had no means of catching any , or I should have made a Sandwich Island meal . There was , however , an abundant supply of wild cherries , on which I made a hearty supper . I slept on the bank of ...
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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.