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Seite 259 - This is worse than visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations.
Seite 140 - Occasionally an honest man in the corps does come out, but where one does this, ten affect to think what they do not believe, in order to secure votes — votes, votes, votes. In that simple word lies all the mystery of the matter. ' ' ' ' Jefferson said, if he were to choose between a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, he would take the last.
Seite 215 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. CADE Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Seite 401 - Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave ; That their light canoes have vanished, From off the crested wave. That 'mid the forests where they roamed, There rings no hunter's shout ; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.
Seite 329 - add shaver " in the bargain. Such was the man, and such the class, that the deluded anti-renters of New York wish to substitute, in a social sense, for the ancient landlords of the country. A pretty top-sheaf they would make to the stack of the community, and admirably would the grain be kept that was protected by their covering ! One would like to see fellows of this moral calibre interpreting their covenants ; and it would be a useful, though a painful lesson, to see the change effected for a...
Seite 142 - I see thee still : Remembrance, faithful to her trust, Calls thee in beauty from the dust ; Thou comest in the morning light, Thou'rt with me through the gloomy night ; In dreams I meet thee as of old ; Then thy soft arms my neck enfold, And thy sweet voice is in my ear ; In every scene to memory dear, I see thee still.
Seite 54 - O, WHEN shall I visit the land of my birth, The loveliest land on the face of the earth ? When shall I those scenes of affection explore, Our forests, our fountains, Our hamlets, our mountains, With the pride of our mountains, the maid I adore...
Seite 250 - This was done not without decorum of manner, and certainly not without some regard to the holy office of one of the parties, and to the sex of the other. Nevertheless, it was done neatly and expeditiously, leaving us all, Mr. Warren and Mary, my uncle and myself, with a cluster of some fifty Injins around us, standing in the centre of the highway. CHAPTER XIV. " No toil in despair, No tyrant, no slave, No bread-tax is there, With a maw like the grave.
Seite 407 - 'Look at the newspapers that will be put into your hands tomorrow morning, fresh from Wall and Pine and Ann streets. They will be in convulsions, if some unfortunate wight of a Senator speak of adding an extra corporal to a regiment of foot, as an alarming war-demonstration, or quote the fall of a fancy stock that has not one cent of intrinsic value, as if it betokened the downfall of a nation ; while they doze over this volcano, which is raging and gathering strength beneath the whole community,...