The New-England Magazine, Volume 7Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin J. T. and E. Buckingham, 1834 - American literature |
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... least deserving of a grateful and perpetual remembrance . Whether the Thacher family were ever entitled to the distinction of ancient and honorable , the writer has not been ambitious to ascertain . The first of the name , of which we ...
... least deserving of a grateful and perpetual remembrance . Whether the Thacher family were ever entitled to the distinction of ancient and honorable , the writer has not been ambitious to ascertain . The first of the name , of which we ...
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... least of us there was not one screech or outcry made , but all as silent sheep were contentedly re- solved to die together lovingly , as since our acquaintance we had lived together friendly . Now as I was sitting in the cabin room door ...
... least of us there was not one screech or outcry made , but all as silent sheep were contentedly re- solved to die together lovingly , as since our acquaintance we had lived together friendly . Now as I was sitting in the cabin room door ...
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... least . When we were come each to the other , we went and sat down the bank . But fear of the seas roaring , and our coldness , would not suffer us there to remain . But we went up into the land and sat down under a cedar tree which the ...
... least . When we were come each to the other , we went and sat down the bank . But fear of the seas roaring , and our coldness , would not suffer us there to remain . But we went up into the land and sat down under a cedar tree which the ...
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... least painful and injurious to eyes that are inflamed or unusually sensitive . However pleasing other colors may be for a time , they cannot be so long and constantly looked on with safety as these two . Were there time to do justice to ...
... least painful and injurious to eyes that are inflamed or unusually sensitive . However pleasing other colors may be for a time , they cannot be so long and constantly looked on with safety as these two . Were there time to do justice to ...
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... least change be made in either respect , and mischief will ensue . To be more particular . To people the three great localities , or , as they were once termed , elements , of water , earth , and air , there are three distinct families ...
... least change be made in either respect , and mischief will ensue . To be more particular . To people the three great localities , or , as they were once termed , elements , of water , earth , and air , there are three distinct families ...
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Page 134 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 251 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music., heard or learned ; either while the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer...
Page 347 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Page 392 - And saints embrace thee with a love like mine. May one kind grave unite each hapless name, And graft my love immortal on thy fame! Then, ages hence, when all my woes are o'er, When this rebellious heart shall beat no more; If ever chance two wandering lovers brings To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs...
Page 395 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 226 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Page 168 - Whereas, the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence...
Page 228 - It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted mild, pale penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth it look'd forwards ; but look'd, as if it look'd at something beyond this world.
Page 450 - ... further learned that Mr. Higginbotham had in his service an Irishman of doubtful character, whom he had hired without a recommendation, on the score of economy.
Page 398 - Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence.