Ladies' Magazine, Volume 2Putnam & Hunt, 1829 |
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... poor father died , your mother never looked like herself again ; and I verily believe , his death was harder to her , than the loss of all their property . " " I believe so too , " muttered I ; and then , as I perceived she did not ...
... poor father died , your mother never looked like herself again ; and I verily believe , his death was harder to her , than the loss of all their property . " " I believe so too , " muttered I ; and then , as I perceived she did not ...
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... poor wretches to examine their state of health , and whether they were in their right mind . He knew all about it . " And did he think they suffered justly ? " " He did not tell all he thought , " added she ; and then she added in a low ...
... poor wretches to examine their state of health , and whether they were in their right mind . He knew all about it . " And did he think they suffered justly ? " " He did not tell all he thought , " added she ; and then she added in a low ...
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... poor , pale , puzzling author dream , amid all his imaginings , what is to be the future fate of his hard - labored productions , or to what menial offices the off- springs of his brain are to be condemned ! -Could he fore- see it . I ...
... poor , pale , puzzling author dream , amid all his imaginings , what is to be the future fate of his hard - labored productions , or to what menial offices the off- springs of his brain are to be condemned ! -Could he fore- see it . I ...
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... poor as to pray to his God . It is not at the option of such an one to say he will do as he pleases with his own . The " earth is the Lord's , " and he has commanded those to whom he commits its stewardship " to distribute , " libe ...
... poor as to pray to his God . It is not at the option of such an one to say he will do as he pleases with his own . The " earth is the Lord's , " and he has commanded those to whom he commits its stewardship " to distribute , " libe ...
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... poor , and therefore inquiry was not awakened till others bad begun to act . There is now no way but by energy and industry to repair the negligence . The Infant School Society of the city of Boston was form- ed " April 8 , 1828 - to ...
... poor , and therefore inquiry was not awakened till others bad begun to act . There is now no way but by energy and industry to repair the negligence . The Infant School Society of the city of Boston was form- ed " April 8 , 1828 - to ...
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Page 474 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 474 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 52 - Discourse may want an animated — No, To brush the surface, and to make it flow ; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. The mark, at which my juster aim I take, Is contradiction for its own dear sake.
Page 527 - Extolling patience as the truest fortitude; And to the bearing well of all calamities, All chances incident to man's frail life, Consolatories writ With studied argument, and much persuasion sought, Lenient of grief and anxious thought: But with the...
Page 537 - This, this is he, softly a while, Let us not break in upon him. O change beyond report, thought, or belief!
Page 140 - ... how intense were my sufferings. But the point, the acme of my distress, consisted in the awful uncertainty of our final fate. My prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though short existence, in the tyrannic hands of some unfeeling monster. But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances, were neither
Page 139 - Sometimes, for days and days together, I could not go into the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk, in returning to the house. O how many, many times...
Page 139 - During these seven months, the continual extortions and oppressions to which your brother, and the other white prisoners were subject, are indescribable. Sometimes sums of money were demanded, sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have any communication with their friends without. Then, again, the servants were forbidden to carry in their food, without an extra fee.
Page 514 - His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.