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... Hope , in 1776 , the Dutch em- ployed a stratagem which could hardly have succeeded except with the Hottentots . One of the Company's officers had killed an individual belonging to this in- offensive tribe . All his countrymen took part ...
... Hope , in 1776 , the Dutch em- ployed a stratagem which could hardly have succeeded except with the Hottentots . One of the Company's officers had killed an individual belonging to this in- offensive tribe . All his countrymen took part ...
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... hope of pardon . Nothing of this kind , however , was intended ; it was humanely thought that he had already sustained sufficient punishment for his original crime ; and that his subsequent depredations , being solely confined to ...
... hope of pardon . Nothing of this kind , however , was intended ; it was humanely thought that he had already sustained sufficient punishment for his original crime ; and that his subsequent depredations , being solely confined to ...
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... hope , jealousy , despair , and the passions so well known to lovers , and very easily to be understood by those who are ignorant of other languages . The In dians are extremely fond of this entertainment , and lavish large sums on ...
... hope , jealousy , despair , and the passions so well known to lovers , and very easily to be understood by those who are ignorant of other languages . The In dians are extremely fond of this entertainment , and lavish large sums on ...
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... hope delayed- Peril - and pain - and every ill That can the breast of man invade- No tender thought of thine and thee Hath faded from my memory ! * These elegant verses have been extensively circulated in manuscript in town , and have ...
... hope delayed- Peril - and pain - and every ill That can the breast of man invade- No tender thought of thine and thee Hath faded from my memory ! * These elegant verses have been extensively circulated in manuscript in town , and have ...
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... hope for unalloyed delight , Then those who guard thine opening bloom Had never known an hour of gloom . No ; -if the chastening stroke of fate On guilty heads alone descended , Sure they would ne'er have felt its weight , In whose pure ...
... hope for unalloyed delight , Then those who guard thine opening bloom Had never known an hour of gloom . No ; -if the chastening stroke of fate On guilty heads alone descended , Sure they would ne'er have felt its weight , In whose pure ...
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Página 230 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 344 - Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray — An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — nut A groan o'er his untimely lot...
Página 230 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 230 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 230 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Página 197 - Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects which are attempted to be forced into an analogy are not found in the same classes of existence. Individuals are physical beings, subject to laws universal and invariable. The immediate cause acting in these laws may be obscure : the general results are subjects of certain calculation. But cemmonwealths are not physical but moral essences.
Página 94 - Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...
Página 98 - Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
Página 320 - His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes, vacant and spiritless; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined philosopher.
Página 205 - ... new acquirements would enable me to see the ladies with tolerable intrepidity ; but, alas ! how vain are all the hopes of theory...