Connecticut Quarterly: An Illustrated Magazine, Devoted to the Literature, History, and Picturesque Features of Connecticut, Band 2W. Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms Connecticut Quarterly Company, 1896 |
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Seite 189 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will show thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Seite 186 - Lowell's address at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the college in 1886, have high historical value.
Seite 183 - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Seite 273 - Ceasing his beatings as I come, Whirrs to the sheltering branches near; The little milk-snake glides away, The brindled marmot dives from day; And now, between the boughs, a space Of the blue laughing sky I trace. On each side shrinks the bowery shade; Before me spreads an emerald glade; The sunshine steeps its grass and moss That couch my footsteps as I cross. Merrily hums the tawny bee, The glittering humming-bird I see; Floats the bright butterfly along; The insect choir is loud in song. A spot...
Seite 270 - A LOVELY sky, a cloudless sun, A wind that breathes of leaves and flowers. O'er hill, through dale, my steps have won, To the cool forest's shadowy bowers ; One of the paths all round that wind, Traced by the browsing herds, I choose, And sights and sounds of human kind In Nature's lone recesser lose.
Seite 277 - In no part of the world is the education of all ranks of people more attended to than in Connecticut ; almost every town in the State is divided into districts, and each district has a public school kept in it a greater or less part of every year.
Seite 272 - The sylvan floor is bathed in gold : Low sprouts and herbs, before unseen, Display their shades of brown and green ; Tints brighten o'er the velvet moss, Gleams twinkle on the laurel's gloss ; The robin, brooding in her nest, Chirps as the quick ray strikes her breast, And as my shadow prints the ground, I see the rabbit upward bound, With pointed ears an instant look, Then scamper to the darkest nook, Where, with crouch'd limb and staring eye, He watches while I saunter by.
Seite 44 - The memory of a kindly word For long gone by, The fragrance of a fading flower Sent lovingly, The gleaming of a sudden smile Or sudden tear, The warmer pressure of the hand, The tone of cheer, The hush that means "I cannot speak, But I have heard ! " The note that only bears a verse From God's own word : — Such tiny things we hardly count As ministry ; The givers deeming they have shown Scant sympathy ; But, when the heart is overwrought, Oh who can tell The power of such tiny things To make it...
Seite 57 - That the whole congregation may join herein, every one that can read is to have a psalm book; and all others, not disabled by age or otherwise, are to be exhorted to learn to read.
Seite 189 - New York, by the adoption of a constitution and by-laws, and the election of the following officers: President, G.