The Hesperian, Volume 3William Davis Gallagher, Otway Curry J.D. Nichols, 1839 - Literature |
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... nature , their progress is rapid , notwithstanding the hours devoted to the teaching of others ; and in a few years after fixing themselves in their new homes , they may be seen in the pulpit , at the bar , and among the most successful ...
... nature , their progress is rapid , notwithstanding the hours devoted to the teaching of others ; and in a few years after fixing themselves in their new homes , they may be seen in the pulpit , at the bar , and among the most successful ...
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... nature . He was now some fifty years old - having grown gray as a publican , ( and sinner , the temperance societies would add . ) The rep- utation of his bar and table spread far ern commonwealths . And here , on a calm evening in the ...
... nature . He was now some fifty years old - having grown gray as a publican , ( and sinner , the temperance societies would add . ) The rep- utation of his bar and table spread far ern commonwealths . And here , on a calm evening in the ...
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... nature ; and how he had ever been induced to join the emigrating party , and leave his " Pennsylvania Home " for the wilds of the " Far West , " remains a mystery to this day . Yohonnes here returned his pipe to his mouth , folded his ...
... nature ; and how he had ever been induced to join the emigrating party , and leave his " Pennsylvania Home " for the wilds of the " Far West , " remains a mystery to this day . Yohonnes here returned his pipe to his mouth , folded his ...
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... nature , and his partner gentle and far beyond him in intelli- gence , yet had they lived happily . He was the son of a Pennsylvania farmer in good circumstances ; she , an orphan of whom no- thing was known , but that she had been con ...
... nature , and his partner gentle and far beyond him in intelli- gence , yet had they lived happily . He was the son of a Pennsylvania farmer in good circumstances ; she , an orphan of whom no- thing was known , but that she had been con ...
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... Nature sometimes plays very strange length with his watching , the anxious parent freaks with the members of the human threw himself into his chair , adjusted the family . We now see a poor shoemaker stem of his pipe in his mouth and ...
... Nature sometimes plays very strange length with his watching , the anxious parent freaks with the members of the human threw himself into his chair , adjusted the family . We now see a poor shoemaker stem of his pipe in his mouth and ...
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Page 318 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 140 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
Page 36 - Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
Page 57 - Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) that the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan : and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Page 141 - And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, And shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
Page 280 - ... the mere grant of such a power to Congress, did not imply a prohibition on the States to exercise the same power; that it is not the mere existence of such a power, but its exercise by Congress, which may be incompatible with the exercise of the same power by the States, and that the States may legislate in the absence of congressional regulations (Sturges v.
Page 140 - Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Page 71 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 144 - Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
Page 50 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven ; a land which the Lord thy God careth for : the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.