Rural Repository, Volumes 26-27W. B. Stoddard, 1850 |
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... Woman's Temper , 21 Works of Fiction , 47 The New - York Washingtonian , 23 The Badgley Hotel , 151 Winter , 68 The Maniac , 29 The Home Journal , ib . The Worst Ism , 30 The Governess , Wit , 70 Take Courage , Boys ! The Quaker's ...
... Woman's Temper , 21 Works of Fiction , 47 The New - York Washingtonian , 23 The Badgley Hotel , 151 Winter , 68 The Maniac , 29 The Home Journal , ib . The Worst Ism , 30 The Governess , Wit , 70 Take Courage , Boys ! The Quaker's ...
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... woman , and therefore not likely to die , whom she has vowed never to part with , but to watch over her till death . " " " Indeed ! A relation , perhaps ? " X. arms . " You are not hurt I hope ? " said he , though he saw with some alarm ...
... woman , and therefore not likely to die , whom she has vowed never to part with , but to watch over her till death . " " " Indeed ! A relation , perhaps ? " X. arms . " You are not hurt I hope ? " said he , though he saw with some alarm ...
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... woman had stood by the kichen - fire , after the children were in bed , and till their mother had left them to lead the pauvre maman into the garden ; and she remembered to have seen a tall dark - looking man , with singularly bright ...
... woman had stood by the kichen - fire , after the children were in bed , and till their mother had left them to lead the pauvre maman into the garden ; and she remembered to have seen a tall dark - looking man , with singularly bright ...
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... woman started and turned round , but instantly resumed her pos- O the joy of that moment to his long persecutedture without answering ; and the girl observed that though patient and resigned victim ! A load was she was too deaf to ...
... woman started and turned round , but instantly resumed her pos- O the joy of that moment to his long persecutedture without answering ; and the girl observed that though patient and resigned victim ! A load was she was too deaf to ...
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... woman's apparel , he , ready dressed for flight , jumped through a window near the bed , mounted the horse in read- iness , and made his escape . Waldomar was immediately surrounded by a band of friends , followers , and grateful ...
... woman's apparel , he , ready dressed for flight , jumped through a window near the bed , mounted the horse in read- iness , and made his escape . Waldomar was immediately surrounded by a band of friends , followers , and grateful ...
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Page 138 - They used to say to one another, sometimes, Supposing all the children upon earth were to die, would the flowers, and the water, and the sky, be sorry ? They believed they would be sorry. For, said they, the buds are the children of the flowers, and the little playful streams that gambol down the hill-sides are the children of the water ; and the smallest bright specks playing at...
Page 29 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 36 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion 'were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 138 - But while she was still very young, oh, very young, the sister drooped, and came to be so weak that she could no longer stand in the window at night, and then the child looked sadly out by himself, and when he saw the star, turned round and said to the patient pale face on the bed, "I see the star!
Page 139 - She was turning hopefully away, when the child stretched out his arms, and cried, " O, sister, I am here ! Take me ! " And then she turned her beaming eyes upon him, — and it was night ; and the star was shining into the room, making long rays down towards him as he saw it through his tears.
Page 139 - And the star was shining. Thus the child came to be an old man, and his once smooth face was wrinkled, and his steps were slow and feeble, and his back was bent. And one night as he lay upon his bed, his children standing round, he cried, as he had cried so long ago: "I see the star!" They whispered one another,
Page 11 - We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine compared with the education of the heart.
Page 138 - THERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers ; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky ; they wondered at the depth of the bright water ; they wondered at the goodness and the power of GOD who made the lovely world.
Page 13 - I should have been a French atheist, if it had not been for one recollection, and that was, the memory of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hands in hers, and cause me on my knees to say, ' Our Father which art in heaven...
Page 139 - But there were many angels who did not go with them, and among them one he knew. The patient face that once had lain upon the bed was glorified and radiant, but his heart found out his sister among all the host. His sister's angel lingered near the entrance of the star, and said to the leader among those who had brought the people thither,— "Is my brother come?