Western CharactersRedfield, 1853 - 378페이지 |
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8 페이지
... hundred miles from sea . It washes the shores of twelve powerful states , and between its arms lies space enough for twen- ty more . The rains which fall upon the Allega- nies , and the snows that shroud the slopes and cap the summits ...
... hundred miles from sea . It washes the shores of twelve powerful states , and between its arms lies space enough for twen- ty more . The rains which fall upon the Allega- nies , and the snows that shroud the slopes and cap the summits ...
9 페이지
... hundred leagues from their sources . has formed a larger tract of land , by the de- posites of its inundations , than is contained in Great Britain and Ireland ; and every year it roots up and bears away more trees , than there are in ...
... hundred leagues from their sources . has formed a larger tract of land , by the de- posites of its inundations , than is contained in Great Britain and Ireland ; and every year it roots up and bears away more trees , than there are in ...
12 페이지
... some But life rolls on , as does the river , though its wave no longer flows in placid beauty , nor re- veals the hidden things beneath . The ripples are now whirling eddies , and a hundred angry currents 12 INTRODUCTORY .
... some But life rolls on , as does the river , though its wave no longer flows in placid beauty , nor re- veals the hidden things beneath . The ripples are now whirling eddies , and a hundred angry currents 12 INTRODUCTORY .
13 페이지
John Ludlum McConnel. are now whirling eddies , and a hundred angry currents chafe along the rocks , as thought and feeling fret against the world , and waste their strength in vain repining or impatient irrita- tion . Tranquillity ...
John Ludlum McConnel. are now whirling eddies , and a hundred angry currents chafe along the rocks , as thought and feeling fret against the world , and waste their strength in vain repining or impatient irrita- tion . Tranquillity ...
15 페이지
... hundred millions ; and here will be the seat of the most colossal power Earth has yet contained . The heterogeneous character of the people is of no consequence : still less , the storms of dissension , which now and then arise , to ...
... hundred millions ; and here will be the seat of the most colossal power Earth has yet contained . The heterogeneous character of the people is of no consequence : still less , the storms of dissension , which now and then arise , to ...
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American ARSENE HOUSSAYE ascer authority barbarous became belonged Cahokia called CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO cause character characteristics citizens civilization contempt courage course Cutler danger defence Driscol duties eighteen hundred Elwood emigration enemy entered eyes fact faith father feeling forest French friends frontier gave give Grayson habits hand heart honor horse idea Illinois Illinois river Indian Iroquois justice Kaskaskia knew labor Lake Michigan land latter lived maize manner Margaret Roberts Marquette marriage means ment miles mind missionary Mississippi Missouri nations nature neighbors never once peace pioneer political possession prairie present primitive probably punishment puritans race rangers reached regulators respectable rifle river savage scalp schoolmaster seldom settlement Shakespeare Shawanese sometimes soon spirit stoicism Stone success tained things thought tion trait tribes usually voyageur western wife wild wilderness words
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77 페이지 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
75 페이지 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
287 페이지 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
324 페이지 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.
104 페이지 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
32 페이지 - Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe. It describes the flowing, not the fixed. It does not define the limits of sense, or analyze the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling.
246 페이지 - I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
105 페이지 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
38 페이지 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
52 페이지 - It is to be doubted, whether some part of this vaunted stoicism be not the result of a more than ordinary degree of physical insensibility.