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... young Estin . " I doubt much if we will be able to do so , " answered Torrey . From a person belonging to the neigh- borhood , with whom they met , they learned that upon Burnot's return to his house , late on the evening of the day be ...
... young Estin . " I doubt much if we will be able to do so , " answered Torrey . From a person belonging to the neigh- borhood , with whom they met , they learned that upon Burnot's return to his house , late on the evening of the day be ...
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... young and unwary . He was more circumspect in regard to such men as Mr. Dalzell , and it was not without an increased degree of caution that he engaged in dealings with such an one . Upon the present occasion Mr. Dalzell almost shrunk ...
... young and unwary . He was more circumspect in regard to such men as Mr. Dalzell , and it was not without an increased degree of caution that he engaged in dealings with such an one . Upon the present occasion Mr. Dalzell almost shrunk ...
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... young Torrey's note . He further stated that unfortunately his father had left the place , and that Hawk who had seen Mr. Dalzell , was very much excited by the fact that this gentle- man had pronounced the note a forgery . Burser ...
... young Torrey's note . He further stated that unfortunately his father had left the place , and that Hawk who had seen Mr. Dalzell , was very much excited by the fact that this gentle- man had pronounced the note a forgery . Burser ...
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... young men reached Grant- hill , they found their friends waiting for them with the utmost impatience . Old Mr. Goodley had left . Old Mr. Estin and Mr. Landon had been to see a man named Maclean , who lived at a consider- able distance ...
... young men reached Grant- hill , they found their friends waiting for them with the utmost impatience . Old Mr. Goodley had left . Old Mr. Estin and Mr. Landon had been to see a man named Maclean , who lived at a consider- able distance ...
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... young buds of spring . Her lips moved with some muttered words . Dalzell bent him down to hear . It was only for a moment however , that this delusion lasted . She quickly awa- kened to the reality of her circumstan- ces ; and , as a ...
... young buds of spring . Her lips moved with some muttered words . Dalzell bent him down to hear . It was only for a moment however , that this delusion lasted . She quickly awa- kened to the reality of her circumstan- ces ; and , as a ...
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Seite 88 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume.
Seite 213 - WE knew it would rain, for all the morn. A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
Seite 475 - I deemed that if they were put under a sort of cover I might gain my end ; and happening to have a mask in the house, I told them all to stand and speak boldly from under cover of the mask. " I began with the youngest (Anne, afterwards Acton Bell), and asked what a child like her most wanted ; she answered, 'Age and experience.
Seite 91 - But the power of Congress over the person or property of a citizen can never be a mere discretionary power under our Constitution and form of Government. The powers of the Government and the rights and privileges of the citizen are regulated and plainly defined by the Constitution itself.
Seite 343 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Seite 90 - And if the Constitution recognizes the right of property of the master in a slave, and makes no distinction between that description of property and other property owned by a citizen, no tribunal, acting under the authority of the United States, whether it be legislative, executive, or judicial, has a right to draw such a distinction, or deny to it the benefit of the provisions and guarantees which have been provided for the protection of private property against the encroachments of the government.
Seite 479 - HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, , Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Seite 475 - A circumstance now occurs to my mind which I may as well mention. When my children were very young, when, as far as I can remember, the oldest was about ten years of age, and the youngest about four, thinking that they knew more than I had yet discovered, in order to make them speak with less timidity, I deemed that if they were put...
Seite 420 - The light clear element which the isle wears Is heavy with the scent of lemon-flowers, Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers. And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep ; And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, And dart their arrowy odour through the brain, Till you might faint with that delicious pain.
Seite 174 - On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break, As down he bears before the gale.