Parley's Magazine, Volume 5C.S. Francis & Company, 1837 - Children's periodicals |
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... look a little ashamed to be known among the readers of a children's magazine , and seem disposed to hide themselves among the crowd ; but need they ? Is it a shame to love to read children's books ? and the mothers still to another ...
... look a little ashamed to be known among the readers of a children's magazine , and seem disposed to hide themselves among the crowd ; but need they ? Is it a shame to love to read children's books ? and the mothers still to another ...
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... , Retains that fierce commotion , So long that form shall calmly stand , And live mid memory's ocean . With how much more pleasure and self - respect we look back on our con- 8 duct , when we have endured an afflic- tion.
... , Retains that fierce commotion , So long that form shall calmly stand , And live mid memory's ocean . With how much more pleasure and self - respect we look back on our con- 8 duct , when we have endured an afflic- tion.
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... looks with placid eye E'en on the storm that wrecks her . " I think it was during the Revolution of France ... Look upwards , and all will yet be well . Your every woe is weigh'd by Power Divine ; If earth be dark , then heaven ...
... looks with placid eye E'en on the storm that wrecks her . " I think it was during the Revolution of France ... Look upwards , and all will yet be well . Your every woe is weigh'd by Power Divine ; If earth be dark , then heaven ...
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... look so ugly , and she said to her , " Venus , my father thinks you the ugliest negro he ever saw ( even for a negro ) and he only worse . " Having made this agree- able communication , Rosamond went out of the kitchen and departed for ...
... look so ugly , and she said to her , " Venus , my father thinks you the ugliest negro he ever saw ( even for a negro ) and he only worse . " Having made this agree- able communication , Rosamond went out of the kitchen and departed for ...
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... looks as if made of black currants . I suspect she has boiled it too long , and has not put in sugar enough . " Next day as they were coming from school together , Mrs. Renwick's little daughter Marianne , said to Rosamond , " My mother ...
... looks as if made of black currants . I suspect she has boiled it too long , and has not put in sugar enough . " Next day as they were coming from school together , Mrs. Renwick's little daughter Marianne , said to Rosamond , " My mother ...
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Page 117 - We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
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Page 78 - Captain Church and his handful of soldiers crept down also, under the shadow of those two and their baskets. The captain himself crept close behind the old man, with his hatchet in his hand, and stepped over the young man's head to the arms. The young Jlnnawon discovering him, whipped his blanket over his head, and shrunk up in a heap. The old Captain Annawon started up on his breech, and cried out
Page 89 - This land lay stretching itself to the West, which after we found to be but an island of twenty miles long, and not above six miles broad.
Page 88 - ... arrived upon the coast, which we supposed to be a continent and firm land, and we sailed along the same a hundred and twenty English miles before we could find any entrance or river issuing into the sea.
Page 88 - Which being performed, according to the ceremonies used in such enterprises, we viewed the land about us, being, whereas we first landed, very sandie and low towards the waters side, but so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them...