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Pagina 22
... door an hour after ringing the bell , or lifting the knocker , before the appearance of a servant , ( a fashion probably instituted among needy nobility or ruined bankrupts , in order to ascertain before admission , whether their ...
... door an hour after ringing the bell , or lifting the knocker , before the appearance of a servant , ( a fashion probably instituted among needy nobility or ruined bankrupts , in order to ascertain before admission , whether their ...
Pagina 26
... door immediately interested the attention of the ladies , and the next moment the identical young Clergyman was ushered into the drawing - room . With inimitable grace he immediately walked to Mr Hol- bey and shaking hands with him ...
... door immediately interested the attention of the ladies , and the next moment the identical young Clergyman was ushered into the drawing - room . With inimitable grace he immediately walked to Mr Hol- bey and shaking hands with him ...
Pagina 28
... door and up the spacious entry , a feeling of awe involuntarily came over her , and she felt as though about to appear in the presence of some superior being . Nor was the feeling lessened when received by her fair friend at the door of ...
... door and up the spacious entry , a feeling of awe involuntarily came over her , and she felt as though about to appear in the presence of some superior being . Nor was the feeling lessened when received by her fair friend at the door of ...
Pagina 42
... door and stopped irresolute , undetermined whether to enter or not . Sidney beckoned her , and putting the hand of Adelaide within her's , faintly articulated , ' be sisters , ' and left the room . Long did the two afflicted young wo ...
... door and stopped irresolute , undetermined whether to enter or not . Sidney beckoned her , and putting the hand of Adelaide within her's , faintly articulated , ' be sisters , ' and left the room . Long did the two afflicted young wo ...
Pagina 46
... door neighbors - in towns as well as in large cities , to reside for years near families without knowing an individual of them . During this period they , the plebeians , gradually emerge from ob- scurity , and the knowledge that no one ...
... door neighbors - in towns as well as in large cities , to reside for years near families without knowing an individual of them . During this period they , the plebeians , gradually emerge from ob- scurity , and the knowledge that no one ...
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Aristocracy: Or The Holbey Family: a National Tale... Catherine Read Williams Volledige weergave - 1832 |
Aristocracy: Or The Holbey Family: a National Tale... Catherine Read Williams Volledige weergave - 1832 |
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Pagina 36 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood...
Pagina 293 - How shocking must thy summons be, O Death, To him that is at ease in his possessions; Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come ! In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help ; But shrieks in vain ! How wishfully she looks On all she's leaving, now no longer hers!
Pagina 306 - We are called to walk, first, with all lowliness: to have the mind in us which was also in Christ Jesus, not to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think...
Pagina 276 - I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud, That will encounter with our glorious sun, Ere he attain his easeful western bed: I mean, my lords, those powers that the queen Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast And, as we hear, march on to fight with us.
Pagina 142 - ... the condition they had striven to attain, either by indulging in bad propensities, or by omitting to cultivate the better instincts of their nature.' (PAcecZo.) This gradual but certain declension issues in the final extinction of the soul. This agrees with St. Paul's doctrine. ' Fear not him who can kill the body, and after that hath no more that he can do,
Pagina 40 - Jesus' sake ; Their souls shall triumph in the Lord ; Eternal life is their reward. MOURNING AND CONSOLATION. 492. L. M- STEELK Death of an Infant. 1 SO fades the lovely, blooming flower, Frail, smiling solace of an hour ; So soon our transient comforts fly, And pleasure only blooms to die.
Pagina 183 - France and England, especially with the latter, who saw in America a formidable rival. These disputes finally impelled the states to have recourse to the unexampled resolution of a voluntary suspension of their own commerce. On the 22d of December, 1807, Congress passed an act laying an embargo on all vessels within the jurisdiction of the United States. This was followed, March 1st, 1808, by an act interdicting commercial intercourse with France and Great Britain.
Pagina 86 - ... and policy, and true patriotism of Mr. Jay were soon made manifest. In October following, a treaty was concluded with Spain, by which the boundaries between the Spanish territories of Louisiana and Florida, and the United States, were defined. That treaty also secured to the United States the free navigation of the Mississippi, and the use of New Orleans, as a port, for ten years. As soon as one excitement was fairly allayed, causes for others appeared ; and during the whole time of Washington's...
Pagina 204 - Shall the savage scenes of those terrible border wars be acted over again in our country ? Forbid it Heaven ! Better that the lives of all these plotters of
Pagina 179 - French decrees, affecting our neutral rights, and which preceded the war of 1812 British order*, between Great Britain and the United States. On the 16th of May, 1806, the British Government issued an order in council, declaring the coast included between the Elbe and Brest in a state of blockade. On the 21st of November, 1806. the French emperor issued his Berlin decree, declaring Great Britain and her dependencies in a state of blockade. On the 7th of January, 1807, the British government issued...