Recollections of a Long LifeJoseph Packard, Thomas Jones Packard |
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... passed during an era of great discovery and invention . I have no intention of writing an autobiography , but shall set down some recollections of things and people as I have known them , and try to retouch the fading lines of country ...
... passed during an era of great discovery and invention . I have no intention of writing an autobiography , but shall set down some recollections of things and people as I have known them , and try to retouch the fading lines of country ...
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... passed in flat- bottomed boats to the Island in the night by the light of the moon , but owing to adverse circumstances the enterprise was given up and the campaign was soon closed . " " I saw General Washington take command of the army ...
... passed in flat- bottomed boats to the Island in the night by the light of the moon , but owing to adverse circumstances the enterprise was given up and the campaign was soon closed . " " I saw General Washington take command of the army ...
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... passed through college without fine or censure and with a respectable literary character . John Quincy Adams was my classmate , and at a college re - union many years afterwards , I walked arm in arm with him in the procession . I was ...
... passed through college without fine or censure and with a respectable literary character . John Quincy Adams was my classmate , and at a college re - union many years afterwards , I walked arm in arm with him in the procession . I was ...
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... passed as it was in the retirement of a country minister's parish . Edward Everett Hale has given an account of his boyhood in the city of Boston ; mine was spent in a secluded seaport town in the State of Maine . Wiscasset was one of ...
... passed as it was in the retirement of a country minister's parish . Edward Everett Hale has given an account of his boyhood in the city of Boston ; mine was spent in a secluded seaport town in the State of Maine . Wiscasset was one of ...
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... passed an examination that was considered unusually good . I belonged to the Peucinian Society , and was one of the four out of my class elected to the Phi Beta Kappa , to which sev- eral professors , among them Longfellow , and most of ...
... passed an examination that was considered unusually good . I belonged to the Peucinian Society , and was one of the four out of my class elected to the Phi Beta Kappa , to which sev- eral professors , among them Longfellow , and most of ...
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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...