The Republican Compiler: Comprising a Series of Scientific, Descriptive, Narrative, Popular, Biographical, Epistolary, and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and VerseCramer & Spear, 1818 - 263 страници |
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... fires ! The very atmosphere we breathe , unless perpetually purified by the accession of oxygen , is it not the most deadly poison ? Virtue , my young friends , is the oxygen , the vital air of the moral world . Immutable and ...
... fires ! The very atmosphere we breathe , unless perpetually purified by the accession of oxygen , is it not the most deadly poison ? Virtue , my young friends , is the oxygen , the vital air of the moral world . Immutable and ...
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... fires of the father of song , whose eyes yet undazzled " with excess of light " had stored his mind with that sublime scenery , that poetic drapery , with which nature has clothed the countries which dispute the honor of his birth ...
... fires of the father of song , whose eyes yet undazzled " with excess of light " had stored his mind with that sublime scenery , that poetic drapery , with which nature has clothed the countries which dispute the honor of his birth ...
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... fire , in a narrow quiver , formed of different kinds of skin , though thatof the otter seems to be preferred . It is just long enough to protect the arrows from the weather , and is worn on the back by means of a strap passing over the ...
... fire , in a narrow quiver , formed of different kinds of skin , though thatof the otter seems to be preferred . It is just long enough to protect the arrows from the weather , and is worn on the back by means of a strap passing over the ...
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... fire , and found Drewyer , who had killed a second deer : the same struggle for the entrails was renewed here , and on giving nearly the whole deer to the Indians , they devoured it even to the soft part of the hoofs . A fire being made ...
... fire , and found Drewyer , who had killed a second deer : the same struggle for the entrails was renewed here , and on giving nearly the whole deer to the Indians , they devoured it even to the soft part of the hoofs . A fire being made ...
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... fire , the negro , however , became intimidated , and followed him . Patrick now shouldered his musket , marched off before , and on his way up the mountains , exultingly informed the negro he was henceforth to work for him , and become ...
... fire , the negro , however , became intimidated , and followed him . Patrick now shouldered his musket , marched off before , and on his way up the mountains , exultingly informed the negro he was henceforth to work for him , and become ...
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Страница 134 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, — but there is no peace.
Страница 104 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Страница 134 - Besides, sir, we have no election. " If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Страница 134 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed; and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Страница 242 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Страница 242 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Страница 104 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Страница 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Страница 17 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Страница 133 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.