The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags, and Other LecturesDerby & Jackson, 1857 - 285 páginas William Henry Milburn was a blind Methodist clergyman. A friend of notables including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he was Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate fifty years later (1893 until his death in 1903). He preached and lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. |
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... Trade , 215 Early Discoveries in the Southwest , 217 Exploration of the Mississippi , 219 Discouragements of the Colonists , The French Charter Renounced , · 221 223 • The Assiento Contract , Gold Unsuccessfully Sought , Foundation of 1 *
... Trade , 215 Early Discoveries in the Southwest , 217 Exploration of the Mississippi , 219 Discouragements of the Colonists , The French Charter Renounced , · 221 223 • The Assiento Contract , Gold Unsuccessfully Sought , Foundation of 1 *
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... Trading Post , Imprisoned by the Spanish , The Napoleonist Refugees , . " The Vine and Olive Company , " Ill Success of the Adventure , Dispersion of the Settlers , Anglo - Saxon Supremacy , . 291 · · 293 295 . 297 299 . 301 . 303 • 305 ...
... Trading Post , Imprisoned by the Spanish , The Napoleonist Refugees , . " The Vine and Olive Company , " Ill Success of the Adventure , Dispersion of the Settlers , Anglo - Saxon Supremacy , . 291 · · 293 295 . 297 299 . 301 . 303 • 305 ...
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... trade in this line , turning thereby many an honest penny . The plan was designed to work as a two - edged sword , cutting both ways - to place a sound religioas literature in the homes of the people , and ( as we bought at a discount ...
... trade in this line , turning thereby many an honest penny . The plan was designed to work as a two - edged sword , cutting both ways - to place a sound religioas literature in the homes of the people , and ( as we bought at a discount ...
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... trade are more intimate than may be gene- rally known . " But wherefore am I speaking , at a festival given to literary men - a man who cannot read ? No one would cast a shadow , however slight , upon a joyous scene like this . But if a ...
... trade are more intimate than may be gene- rally known . " But wherefore am I speaking , at a festival given to literary men - a man who cannot read ? No one would cast a shadow , however slight , upon a joyous scene like this . But if a ...
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... trade , from the every - day current of human life and affairs . In this sense Mr. Milburn is a thoroughly effective preacher ; always earnest , always thoughtful , but never coldly correct or artistically dull . With proper allowance ...
... trade , from the every - day current of human life and affairs . In this sense Mr. Milburn is a thoroughly effective preacher ; always earnest , always thoughtful , but never coldly correct or artistically dull . With proper allowance ...
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Página 121 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Página 144 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement. From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Página 111 - Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so...
Página 111 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
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Página xix - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
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