The Library of American Biography, Volume 24Hilliard, Gray, 1847 - United States |
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... mind and genius , his mo- tives and feelings , could not be exhibited in any other way with so much distinctness , as through the medium of his own language . Free and full selections from his manuscript Letters and Journals are ...
... mind and genius , his mo- tives and feelings , could not be exhibited in any other way with so much distinctness , as through the medium of his own language . Free and full selections from his manuscript Letters and Journals are ...
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... mind and character , beautiful in person , well in- formed , resolute , generous , amiable , kind , and , above all , eminent for piety and the religious virtues . Such a mother is the best gift of Heaven to a family of helpless young ...
... mind and character , beautiful in person , well in- formed , resolute , generous , amiable , kind , and , above all , eminent for piety and the religious virtues . Such a mother is the best gift of Heaven to a family of helpless young ...
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... mind , and give a decided bias to his future charac- ter . In the marked features of his eventful life , eccentric and extraordinary as it was , full of temptations , crosses , and sufferings , may often be traced lineaments of virtues ...
... mind , and give a decided bias to his future charac- ter . In the marked features of his eventful life , eccentric and extraordinary as it was , full of temptations , crosses , and sufferings , may often be traced lineaments of virtues ...
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... mind ; and it should , moreover , be remembered that , whether right or wrong , he really fancied himself not well treated at Dartmouth . " When I sit down to write , " says he , " I know not where to begin , or where to end , or what ...
... mind ; and it should , moreover , be remembered that , whether right or wrong , he really fancied himself not well treated at Dartmouth . " When I sit down to write , " says he , " I know not where to begin , or where to end , or what ...
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... mind to apply again to his old friends , and seek their sympathy and counsel . As they had expressed themselves warmly in his favor , and recommended him in flattering terms to the Long Island clergy , he was san- guine in the faith ...
... mind to apply again to his old friends , and seek their sympathy and counsel . As they had expressed themselves warmly in his favor , and recommended him in flattering terms to the Long Island clergy , he was san- guine in the faith ...
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Page 335 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Page 324 - Before I had learnt from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Page 368 - ... that his manners, though unpolished, were neither uncivil nor unpleasing. Little attentive to difference of rank, he seemed to consider all men as his equals, and as such he respected them. His genius, though uncultivated and irregular, was original and comprehensive. Ardent in his wishes, yet calm in his deliberations ; daring in his purposes, but guarded in his measures ; impatient of control, yet capable of strong endurance ; adventurous beyond the conception of ordinary men, yet wary and...
Page 237 - He is an accomplished man, and my friend, and has travelled throughout European and Asiatic Russia. I find the little French I have, of infinite service to me. I could not do without it. It is a most extraordinary language. I believe wolves, rocks, woods, and snow understand it, for I have addressed them all in it, and they have all been very complaisant to me. We had a Scythian at table, who belongs to the Royal Society of Physicians here. The moment he knew me and my designs, he became my friend...
Page 229 - The sea, at first smooth and even, became more and more rugged and unequal. It assumed, as we proceeded, an undulating appearance, resembling the waves by which it had been agitated. At length we met with masses of ice heaped one upon the other, and some of them seeming as if they were suspended in the air, while others were raised in the forms of pyramids.
Page 83 - I had no sooner beheld these Americans, than I set them down for the same kind of people, that inhabit the opposite side of the continent.
Page 235 - I cannot tell you by what means I came to Petersburg, and hardly know by what means I shall quit it in the further prosecution of my tour round the world by land.
Page 324 - from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye. I spread the map of Africa before him, and tracing a line from Cairo to Sennaar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him that was the route by which I was anxious that Africa might, if possible, be explored. He said he should think himself singularly fortunate to...
Page 131 - On the thirteenth, at night, the Discovery's large cutter, which was at her usual moorings at the bower buoy, was taken away. On the fourteenth the captains met to consult what should be done on this alarming occasion ; and the issue of their opinions was, that one of the two captains should land with armed boats and a guard of marines at Kiverua, and attempt to persuade Teraiobu, who was then at his house in that town, to come on board upon a visit, and that when he was on board he should be kept...
Page 280 - The equally distinguishing characteristic of feature, in the Tartar face, invites me into a field of observation, which I am not able at present to give bounds to. I must therefore resign it to those who have leisure and a taste for such inquiries, contenting myself with furnishing a few facts, and describing this strange dissimilarity in the human face, according to the observations I have made. This I should be able to do anatomically; but I am not. The Tartar face, in the first impression it gives,...