Armsmear; the home, the arm, and the armory of Samuel Colt [by H. Barnard].1866 |
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Acres American Armory arms factory ARMSMEAR barrel beautiful better bore brought chambers Charter Oak city of Hartford Colonel COLT REVOLVER Colt's Connecticut River cylinder DEAR death dollars Dutch dyke earth engine explosion fair father feet fire fire-arms flood flowers freshet garden Government grace ground guns half hammer hand heart hence Henry Barnard Hill honor hope hundred I. W. STUART improvements inches Indians invention iron King labor land lecturing lock-frame LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY machinery machines manufacture medal memory ment Minié rifle Model Army musket Narraganset nature never nitrous oxide noble once passed patent perfect piece pistol present revolver rifle saltpetre SAMUEL COLT Secretary of War Siam Sigourney silver soon South Meadow specimens steel streets submarine thee thing thousand tion torpedoes tree weapon Wethersfield whole willow wood words workmen Wyllys
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Page 184 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 244 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 103 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot— the arrow bright With an Immortal's vengeance— in his eye And nostril beautiful Disdain, and Might And Majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Page 320 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 55 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse...
Page 235 - ... now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance, will keep you still...
Page 95 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 93 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Page 95 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters...
Page 83 - My correspondent is arrived to such perfection, that he cuts family pieces of men, women or children. Any ladies that please may have their own effigies in myrtle, or their husbands in hornbeam.