Ladies' Magazine, Volume 2Putnam & Hunt, 1829 |
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... Scene Painting , 23 Sketches of American Character . Authoresses , No. I. 30 -Political Parties , 299 Criticism , 36 The Mother , 308 Benevolence , 40 Early Education , 317 Conversation , 50 Recollections . - No . IV . - Susan The ...
... Scene Painting , 23 Sketches of American Character . Authoresses , No. I. 30 -Political Parties , 299 Criticism , 36 The Mother , 308 Benevolence , 40 Early Education , 317 Conversation , 50 Recollections . - No . IV . - Susan The ...
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... scene around me . Forty years had passed over my head since I had trodden that street . Forty years - what astonishing changes had that time produced ! I never before felt the omnipotence of time . I had passed through a variety of for ...
... scene around me . Forty years had passed over my head since I had trodden that street . Forty years - what astonishing changes had that time produced ! I never before felt the omnipotence of time . I had passed through a variety of for ...
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... scene that made the most powerful impression on my youthful feelings , was the burning of Charlestown . How vivid , even now , are the awful impres- sions of that moment ! I was on Bunker Hill , with my firelock firmly grasped , and ...
... scene that made the most powerful impression on my youthful feelings , was the burning of Charlestown . How vivid , even now , are the awful impres- sions of that moment ! I was on Bunker Hill , with my firelock firmly grasped , and ...
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... scene was still unaltered . Neither the hand of time , nor the vanity of man , had left a ruin or a record there . Yet my sensations were totally different . Then I was delighted with the beauty of the view , -the mere change of tint ...
... scene was still unaltered . Neither the hand of time , nor the vanity of man , had left a ruin or a record there . Yet my sensations were totally different . Then I was delighted with the beauty of the view , -the mere change of tint ...
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... scene of action be confined to New England . We have dis- covered , what Charles Cunningham probably overlooked , that from letters addressed to the learned Dr. ( who seems to have been the Dr. Mitchell of his day , one who delighted to ...
... scene of action be confined to New England . We have dis- covered , what Charles Cunningham probably overlooked , that from letters addressed to the learned Dr. ( who seems to have been the Dr. Mitchell of his day , one who delighted 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.