The North-Carolina Reader: Containing a History and Description of North-Carolina, Selections in Prose and Verse, Many of Them by Eminent Citizens of the State, Historical and Chronological Tables, and a Variety of Miscellaneous Information and StatisticsA. S. Barnes, 1855 - 359 sidor |
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... army of ancient patriarchs with hoary beards . It streams in long , gray locks , or flakes , from the branches of the trees ; and gives an indescribable air of quaintness and romantic beauty to the scene . Corn and shingles and fish are ...
... army of ancient patriarchs with hoary beards . It streams in long , gray locks , or flakes , from the branches of the trees ; and gives an indescribable air of quaintness and romantic beauty to the scene . Corn and shingles and fish are ...
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... army upon the land , A navy upon the seas , Creeping along a snail - like band , Or waiting the wayward breeze ; When I mark'd the peasant faintly reel With the toil which he daily bore , As he feebly turn'd the tardy wheel , Or tugg'd ...
... army upon the land , A navy upon the seas , Creeping along a snail - like band , Or waiting the wayward breeze ; When I mark'd the peasant faintly reel With the toil which he daily bore , As he feebly turn'd the tardy wheel , Or tugg'd ...
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... army with music and banners , we would hardly notice it ; man , and all his works , and all his devices , are sinking into insignificance . We feel that we are approaching nearer and nearer to the Almighty Architect : we feel in all ...
... army with music and banners , we would hardly notice it ; man , and all his works , and all his devices , are sinking into insignificance . We feel that we are approaching nearer and nearer to the Almighty Architect : we feel in all ...
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... army , in 1693 ; and the inhabitants , men , women , and children , about fifteen thousand in number , were stripped of their property and turned into the fields by night . They were persuaded again to return and rebuild the city , when ...
... army , in 1693 ; and the inhabitants , men , women , and children , about fifteen thousand in number , were stripped of their property and turned into the fields by night . They were persuaded again to return and rebuild the city , when ...
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... army of the Duke of Cumberland . In that bloody conflict , the heir of the Stuarts was totally defeated ; and the Pretender , as he was called , after a romantic escape and extreme suffering from want and fatigue , finally made his way ...
... army of the Duke of Cumberland . In that bloody conflict , the heir of the Stuarts was totally defeated ; and the Pretender , as he was called , after a romantic escape and extreme suffering from want and fatigue , finally made his way ...
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Sida 306 - And why take ye thought for raiment ? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spin : and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Sida 301 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Sida 299 - FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Sida 300 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Sida 306 - Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Sida 306 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal : but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, .where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal : for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Sida 301 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2.
Sida 253 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel But who with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Sida 53 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true. In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose, for truth and sense, The pedantry...
Sida 302 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished; of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.