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... delight in writing to you as a rest and contrast . I have now got rid of the whole load which I have been carrying all the fall , and shall have easy times . I have a case for Monday here of very easy character about the New York ...
... delight in writing to you as a rest and contrast . I have now got rid of the whole load which I have been carrying all the fall , and shall have easy times . I have a case for Monday here of very easy character about the New York ...
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... delight - Webster , Choate , Everett , Mann , Sumner and Garrison . In life , they divided the sentiments and applause of her people . In death , they share the honors of her Pantheon . " It is forty years since he strode these ancient ...
... delight - Webster , Choate , Everett , Mann , Sumner and Garrison . In life , they divided the sentiments and applause of her people . In death , they share the honors of her Pantheon . " It is forty years since he strode these ancient ...
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... delightful labors- and that is the pity of it — he took no vacations . Except for one short trip to Europe , when warned of a possible breakdown in 1850 , an occasional day at Essex , a three days ' journey to the White Mountains was ...
... delightful labors- and that is the pity of it — he took no vacations . Except for one short trip to Europe , when warned of a possible breakdown in 1850 , an occasional day at Essex , a three days ' journey to the White Mountains was ...
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... delightful position of being able to pocket lots of retaining fees which represent a year's salary as Ambassador to England , while when it comes to sending in his bill for services rendered , the figures are apt to run to the salary of ...
... delightful position of being able to pocket lots of retaining fees which represent a year's salary as Ambassador to England , while when it comes to sending in his bill for services rendered , the figures are apt to run to the salary of ...
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... N. B. Tuesday , 22 Augt . '99 . " *** We are having a very good time at Skibo- out of doors all the time in the most delightful country— and I begin to understand the charm of the Highlands IN ENGLAND AS AMBASSADOR 93.
... N. B. Tuesday , 22 Augt . '99 . " *** We are having a very good time at Skibo- out of doors all the time in the most delightful country— and I begin to understand the charm of the Highlands IN ENGLAND AS AMBASSADOR 93.
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Page 303 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 365 - And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 295 - One army of the living God, To his command we bow ; Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.
Page 296 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 61 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 303 - And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, there living amongst us) to give the one half of his estate (it being in all about £1700) towards the erecting of a college, and all his library...
Page 165 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Page 55 - From that rough pine cradle, which is still preserved in the room where he was born, to his premature grave at the age of fifty-nine, it was one long course of training and discipline of mind and character, without pause or rest. It began with that well-thumbed and dog's-eared Bible from Hog Island, its leaves actually worn away by the pious hands that had turned them, read daily in the family from January to December, in at Genesis and out at Revelations every two years; and when a new child was...
Page 176 - ... which bears still his illustrious name. It is the smallest and at the same time the greatest street in the world, because it lies at the hub of the gigantic wheel which encircles the globe under the name of the British Empire. It is all American. I have shown you why it is called Downing Street. But why, Lord Salisbury, is it called a street? I have always thought that a street was a way through from one place to some other place. This does not come within that definition. I have heard it called...
Page 281 - Legislature, by the resistless power of the Press, or, worst of all, by the ruthless rapacity of an unbridled majority, to rescue the scapegoat and restore him to his proper place in the world—all this seemed to me to furnish a field worthy of any man's ambition.