The New Hampshire Book: Being Specimens of the Literature of the Granite State ...D. Marshall, 1842 - 391 Seiten |
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... thought of distant enterprise , among a strange people , exposed to constant and unusual peril ? Do we turn with delight to those bold and heroic achievements which call forth the energy of our nature , and by that deep excitement which ...
... thought of distant enterprise , among a strange people , exposed to constant and unusual peril ? Do we turn with delight to those bold and heroic achievements which call forth the energy of our nature , and by that deep excitement which ...
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... thought arrogant in assuming firmly this ground . While we yield precedence to none , we claim it from none . The very character of our soil and climate must make our people hardy , athletic , and brave . It is a country of labor ; of ...
... thought arrogant in assuming firmly this ground . While we yield precedence to none , we claim it from none . The very character of our soil and climate must make our people hardy , athletic , and brave . It is a country of labor ; of ...
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... thoughts , and they embarked at once in the fisheries and trade , which they followed with success , until many of the first settlers became men of opulence in the new country . The great importance of the fisheries seems not to have ...
... thoughts , and they embarked at once in the fisheries and trade , which they followed with success , until many of the first settlers became men of opulence in the new country . The great importance of the fisheries seems not to have ...
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... thought whispered the secret . This was in December , four months before the battle of Lexington . In the spring of the year 1775 , John Langdon was cho- sen a delegate to Congress , and attended the session which commenced in May , at ...
... thought whispered the secret . This was in December , four months before the battle of Lexington . In the spring of the year 1775 , John Langdon was cho- sen a delegate to Congress , and attended the session which commenced in May , at ...
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... thoughts should be main- ly bent on considering , not how the Union should be best preserved , but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up and destroyed . While the Union lasts , we have high ...
... thoughts should be main- ly bent on considering , not how the Union should be best preserved , but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up and destroyed . While the Union lasts , we have high ...
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agriculture AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY beautiful blessed BOCHIM bosom breast breath bright brow called calm CARLOS WILCOX character cherish christian church clouds crown dark death deep delight dream duty earth England faith fathers favor fear feel flowers forest Franconia fratres arvales friends glorious glory Hampshire hand happiness hath heart heaven hills holy honor hope HORATIO HALE hour human Ireland labor land liberty light live lonely look ment militia mind moral mountains nations native nature never night o'er passed passion patriotism peace PETERBOROUGH Portsmouth pride reason religion revolution RURUTU Saco River SAINT CLOUD scenes Seth slumbers smile soil song sorrow soul spirit stand stream sweet tears thee thine things THOMAS ADDIS EMMET Thomas Morison thou thought tion tree true truth virtue voice waves wind Wordwell youth
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Seite 309 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Seite 23 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.
Seite 318 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Seite 22 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Seite 23 - ... of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences these great interests immediately awoke, as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life. Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings ; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has...
Seite 21 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Seite 324 - ... their religious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Seite 210 - Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by...
Seite 253 - But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole ; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
Seite 20 - I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me in regard for whatever of distinguished talent, or distinguished character, South Carolina has produced. I claim part of the honor, I partake in the pride, of her great names. I claim them for countrymen, one...