The Rhode-Island Literary Repository, Volume 1Isaac Bailey Robinson and Howland, 1814 |
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... nature , and very sel- dom indulged in any retaliative measures . On expressing my wonder at this circumstance , my guide informed me , that few were ever injured by their malice ; and no one , unless he stood far below them — and that ...
... nature , and very sel- dom indulged in any retaliative measures . On expressing my wonder at this circumstance , my guide informed me , that few were ever injured by their malice ; and no one , unless he stood far below them — and that ...
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... natural history be cultivated in this country for its intrinsick excellence , apart from the considera- tion of its ... nature ; for who will venture to compare VOL . I. D the most finished productions of art with the originals , 252.
... natural history be cultivated in this country for its intrinsick excellence , apart from the considera- tion of its ... nature ; for who will venture to compare VOL . I. D the most finished productions of art with the originals , 252.
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... nature which this country so abundantly affords . To unbend the mind from severer studies , and reno- vate the hebetated faculties and corporeal powers , by withdraw- ing at times from the busy scenes of life - those confining occu ...
... nature which this country so abundantly affords . To unbend the mind from severer studies , and reno- vate the hebetated faculties and corporeal powers , by withdraw- ing at times from the busy scenes of life - those confining occu ...
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... nature knew , In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew ; Gay without toil , and lovely without art , They sprung to cheer the sense , and glad the heart , " That the sublime science of botany possesses charins exci- tive of great ...
... nature knew , In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew ; Gay without toil , and lovely without art , They sprung to cheer the sense , and glad the heart , " That the sublime science of botany possesses charins exci- tive of great ...
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... nature are rendered clear and certain ; the obscu- rities of reason are enlightened ; and to the doctrine of the im- mortality of the soul , there is added a principle , which the hu- man mind had never before dared to conceive ; I mean ...
... nature are rendered clear and certain ; the obscu- rities of reason are enlightened ; and to the doctrine of the im- mortality of the soul , there is added a principle , which the hu- man mind had never before dared to conceive ; I mean ...
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Popular passages
Page 52 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 114 - Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder ; But, Oh ! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary...
Page 114 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu...
Page 120 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Page 196 - Yet in the whole — who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men — They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess.
Page 137 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Page 223 - ... when dead. If, however, we consider even the prejudiced anecdotes furnished us by his enemies, we may perceive in them traces of amiable and lofty character sufficient to awaken sympathy for his fate, and respect for his memory. We find that, amidst all the harassing cares and ferocious passions of constant warfare, he was alive to the softer feelings of connubial love and paternal tenderness, and to the generous sentiment of friendship. The captivity of his "beloved wife and only son...
Page 393 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Page 254 - Who bow'd so low the knee ? By gazing on thyself grown blind, Thou taught'st the rest to see. With might unquestion'd, • — power to save, Thine only gift hath been the grave, To those that worshipp'd thee; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness!
Page 256 - All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!