Miscellaneous Poems: On Moral and Religious Subjects

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Wm. E. Norman, 1811 - New York (State) - 180 pages

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Page 2 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Page 30 - Lost in clouds, in tempests tost,'" Anxious hopes some friendly coast, Which shall calm and shelter give, Where he peacefully may live : But the coast that I have found, Is not common eartlily ground ; His is mortal, mine's eternal, His is barren, mine is Heaven?
Page 124 - Perchanc'd against a rock to bounce With force as if with sudden pounce He'd lighted on a timid hare That fleetly wing'd the nether air. Quick rising up, the sudden blow...
Page 15 - tis the ruler of the hosts on high : Some trivial exercise of power divine, For purposes — to him best known — but wise, For wisdom is the daughter of Divinity.
Page 36 - O'ER fields of green the flocks are spread, The oak extends its sylvan shade, The root puts forth its tender blade And says 'tis May.
Page 175 - The bee collecting honied wine ; And with a friend, whose every sigh Is wing'd for Heaven, low to lie Where we may with JESUS meet — Oh ! is not this divinely sweet ? XLJII.
Page 15 - See it blackens ! Clouds roll in dark magnificence, And Gothick grandeur mounts— — As if some spirit, from the nether dell Of Chaos, having torn the volving fragments...
Page 144 - OH see those fair celestial heights, How bright they shine, how glorious glow, They shine, oh ye who act aright, They glow, oh Christians, but for you ! OJV SEEING A PJSSWG VESSEL.
Page 2 - Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and liooks to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.

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