Cooper's Novels, Volym 10Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... uncle's roof for nearly ten more years , until use , and natural affec- tion , and the customs of the country , had made her feel absolutely at home there . A less interested , or less selfish being than Mary Pratt , never existed . In ...
... uncle's roof for nearly ten more years , until use , and natural affec- tion , and the customs of the country , had made her feel absolutely at home there . A less interested , or less selfish being than Mary Pratt , never existed . In ...
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... uncle's return . The latter gave the reins to a black , one who was no longer a slave , but who was a de- scendant of some of the ancient slaves of the Pratts , and in that character consented still to dawdle about the place , working ...
... uncle's return . The latter gave the reins to a black , one who was no longer a slave , but who was a de- scendant of some of the ancient slaves of the Pratts , and in that character consented still to dawdle about the place , working ...
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... uncle soon contracted a spe- cies of friendship for , not to say intimacy with , this stran- ger . In the first place , the deacon was a little particular in not having intimates among the necessitous , and the Widow White soon let it ...
... uncle soon contracted a spe- cies of friendship for , not to say intimacy with , this stran- ger . In the first place , the deacon was a little particular in not having intimates among the necessitous , and the Widow White soon let it ...
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... uncle , nothing was at first said to him on the subject . Although his intimacy with Daggett went on increasing , and they were daily more and more together , in long and secret conference , not a suggestion was ever made by the deacon ...
... uncle , nothing was at first said to him on the subject . Although his intimacy with Daggett went on increasing , and they were daily more and more together , in long and secret conference , not a suggestion was ever made by the deacon ...
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... uncle , in the decline of life , en- gaging in a business about which he knew nothing . It pained her , still more , to see one whom she loved from habit , if not from moral sympathies , wasting the few hours that remained for preparing ...
... uncle , in the decline of life , en- gaging in a business about which he knew nothing . It pained her , still more , to see one whom she loved from habit , if not from moral sympathies , wasting the few hours that remained for preparing ...
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Sida 105 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Sida 64 - em to be, now, almost as useful as almanacs. Read what it says about the seasons, child." " It says, sir, that the changes in the seasons are owing to ' the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Sida 120 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll [ Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Sida 102 - God's kind hand it flows To shade the couch where his children repose. Then kneel, while the watching stars are bright, And give your last thoughts to the Guardian of night.
Sida 146 - Let winter come ! let polar spirits sweep The darkening world, and tempest-troubled deep ! Though boundless snows the withered heath deform, And the dim' sun scarce wanders through the storm, Yet shall the smile of social love repay, With mental light, the melancholy day ! And, when its short and sullen noon is o'er, The...
Sida 198 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Sida 204 - Ye dart upon the deep, and straight is heard A wilder roar, and men grow pale, and pray ; "Ye fling its waters round you, as a bird Flings o'er his shivering plumes the fountain's spray. See ! to the breaking mast the sailor clings ; Ye scoop the ocean to its briny springs, And take the mountain billow on your wings, And pile the wreck of navies round the bay.
Sida 64 - 'arth's orbit has an inclination towards changes,' you say." "The changes in the seasons, sir, are owing to 'the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Sida 101 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.