Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, 1. kötet,1. részScribner, 1855 |
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... unto Christ . 16 A Song of Emptiness . 18 · • 21 On ny reverend and dear father , Mr. Thomas Hooker , late Pastor of the Church at Hartford , on Connecti- cut . A thankful acknowledgment of God's Providence . Lines on his removal from ...
... unto Christ . 16 A Song of Emptiness . 18 · • 21 On ny reverend and dear father , Mr. Thomas Hooker , late Pastor of the Church at Hartford , on Connecti- cut . A thankful acknowledgment of God's Providence . Lines on his removal from ...
3. oldal
... unto it as being my dwelling - place , where I have lived these four years , and intend , God willing , to return shortly again . " This tract is divided into two parts , the one treating of the situation and circumstances of the ...
... unto it as being my dwelling - place , where I have lived these four years , and intend , God willing , to return shortly again . " This tract is divided into two parts , the one treating of the situation and circumstances of the ...
4. oldal
... unto reading Scriptures men persuades , One labour bids for food that never fades . One to redeem their time exhorteth all , One looking round for wary walking calls One he persundes men buy the truth , not sell , One would men should ...
... unto reading Scriptures men persuades , One labour bids for food that never fades . One to redeem their time exhorteth all , One looking round for wary walking calls One he persundes men buy the truth , not sell , One would men should ...
7. oldal
... unto the gentiles . A picturesque account of the country was writ- ten by WILLIAM STRACHEY , the first Secretary of the Colony , in his two books of Historie of Tra- raile into Virginia Britannia . It is dedicated to Lord Bacon , and ...
... unto the gentiles . A picturesque account of the country was writ- ten by WILLIAM STRACHEY , the first Secretary of the Colony , in his two books of Historie of Tra- raile into Virginia Britannia . It is dedicated to Lord Bacon , and ...
17. oldal
... unto his eare . 7. Then th ' earth shooke and quak't and moun- taines roots moov'd , and were stir'd at his ire . 8. Up from his nostrils went a smoak , and from his mouth devouring fire : By it the coales inkindled were . 9. Likewise ...
... unto his eare . 7. Then th ' earth shooke and quak't and moun- taines roots moov'd , and were stir'd at his ire . 8. Up from his nostrils went a smoak , and from his mouth devouring fire : By it the coales inkindled were . 9. Likewise ...
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America Anne Bradstreet appeared Bay Psalm Book blood born Boston called Cambridge Christ Christian Church collection colony conscience Cotton Mather death died discourse divine doth edition England English eyes faith fear Franklin give glory GOUT Governor grace hand Harvard Harvard College hath heart heaven History holy honor Increase Mather Indians John John Adams John Cotton King King Philip's war land Latin learned letter liberty live London Lord Massachusetts ment mind minister Nathaniel Ward never peace Philadelphia poem poet Portrait and Autograph preached President printed Psalms published reprinted Roger Williams salt-box Samuel says sent sermons Society soul spirit sweet thee things Thomas THOMAS HOOKER thou tion town tract truth unto verses Virginia volume William Winthrop writings written wrote Yale Yale College
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112. oldal - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
93. oldal - She has a strange sweetness in her mind and singular purity in her affections, is most just and conscientious in all her conduct; and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful if you would give her all the world, lest she should offend this Great Being.
111. oldal - My present friends are the children and grandchildren of the friends of my youth, who are now, alas, no more ! And I must soon follow them; for by the course of nature, though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor in amassing honey-dew on this leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy?
169. oldal - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
112. oldal - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
35. oldal - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
114. oldal - You promise fair; but, after a few months of good health, you will return to your old habits; your fine promises will be forgotten like the forms of last year's clouds.
111. oldal - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably...
220. oldal - You must remember this was the next morning after we heard the horrible rumor of the cannonade of Boston. I never saw a greater effect upon an audience. It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that psalm to be read on that morning. " After this, Mr. Duche, unexpectedly to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.
49. oldal - I wist not what to wish, yet sure, thought I, If so much excellence abide below, How excellent is He that dwells on high!