Contributions to HerographyErastus Darrow, 1850 - 101 pages |
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... father William was an industrious and frugal farmer , and his circumstances of extreme indigence made it impossible for him to ruin his children's physical or mental constitutions by the enervating indulgences of luxury . Robert , his ...
... father William was an industrious and frugal farmer , and his circumstances of extreme indigence made it impossible for him to ruin his children's physical or mental constitutions by the enervating indulgences of luxury . Robert , his ...
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... father laboring under crushing disadvantages ; and doubtless his excess of sensibility , operating upon an immature strength of endurance , prompted to improper toil and produced habitual despondency . His father , notwithstanding his ...
... father laboring under crushing disadvantages ; and doubtless his excess of sensibility , operating upon an immature strength of endurance , prompted to improper toil and produced habitual despondency . His father , notwithstanding his ...
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... father 1g his arged reful Rob- with four of his neighbors , engaged a private tutor , whom they supported from their ... father's family . It is difficult , indeed , if not quite impossible , to foretell from the first indications ...
... father 1g his arged reful Rob- with four of his neighbors , engaged a private tutor , whom they supported from their ... father's family . It is difficult , indeed , if not quite impossible , to foretell from the first indications ...
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... father's wishes . Rigid religionists were then , as now , violently opposed to many innocent and healthful amusements - entertaining the as- cetic notion that true piety demands an entire abstinence from any thing like physical ...
... father's wishes . Rigid religionists were then , as now , violently opposed to many innocent and healthful amusements - entertaining the as- cetic notion that true piety demands an entire abstinence from any thing like physical ...
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... father's death , which occurred in 1784 , Robert and his brother Gilbert leased a farm in company , upon which they remained four years , during which he composed the greater number of his best poems , -conceiving and completing while ...
... father's death , which occurred in 1784 , Robert and his brother Gilbert leased a farm in company , upon which they remained four years , during which he composed the greater number of his best poems , -conceiving and completing while ...
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Page 55 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Page 37 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 11 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 6 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 11 - A man's a man for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their tinsel show, and a' that; The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that. Ye see yon birkie ca'da lord, Wha struts, and stares, and a' that — Though hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that ; For a* that, and a' that, His riband, star, and a' that; The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a
Page 20 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .¿Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities: a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Page 6 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Page 11 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a
Page 20 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Page 5 - Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?