Recollections of a Long LifeJoseph Packard, Thomas Jones Packard |
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... brought into action the enemy gave way and retreated . Our troops then returned to their stations and took refreshment . I think the number killed and wounded was great . I visited my brother several times . His wound became alarming ...
... brought into action the enemy gave way and retreated . Our troops then returned to their stations and took refreshment . I think the number killed and wounded was great . I visited my brother several times . His wound became alarming ...
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... brought them home . They would tramp the nine miles from Brunswick to the Kennebec which they crossed on the ferry , and I would often drive seven miles to meet them on this side . Few families enjoyed so much together as we did . I ...
... brought them home . They would tramp the nine miles from Brunswick to the Kennebec which they crossed on the ferry , and I would often drive seven miles to meet them on this side . Few families enjoyed so much together as we did . I ...
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... brought the semi - weekly mail from Boston was the chief means of communication with the outside world . Drawn by four strong , spirited horses , as Horatio Bridge says in his charming Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne , at the ...
... brought the semi - weekly mail from Boston was the chief means of communication with the outside world . Drawn by four strong , spirited horses , as Horatio Bridge says in his charming Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne , at the ...
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... brought up in a religious family , I had led a prayerless life . I do not remember being taught any forms of prayer or even the Lord's Prayer , and this was owing , doubtless , to the Congregational view of conversion then generally ...
... brought up in a religious family , I had led a prayerless life . I do not remember being taught any forms of prayer or even the Lord's Prayer , and this was owing , doubtless , to the Congregational view of conversion then generally ...
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... brought here . The Rev. Charles B. Dana , rector of Christ church , Alexandria , one of the Trustees of the Seminary , had been at Andover , and he had written to Professor Stuart in regard to my qualifications . The latter wrote a ...
... brought here . The Rev. Charles B. Dana , rector of Christ church , Alexandria , one of the Trustees of the Seminary , had been at Andover , and he had written to Professor Stuart in regard to my qualifications . The latter wrote a ...
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Page 229 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 204 - Let not conscience make you linger, Nor of fitness fondly dream ; All the fitness he requireth, Is to feel your need of him ; This he gives you ; 'Tis the Spirit's rising beam.
Page 292 - And I am sure that when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Page 30 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 312 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 31 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Page 182 - shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever.
Page 7 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 123 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Page 208 - Glory be to God on high, on earth peace, good will towards men...