Chambers' Home Book, Or Pocket Miscellany: Containing a Choice Selection of Interesting and Instructive Reading for the Old and the Young. Vol. I, II, IV, V.William Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1853 |
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... OFFICERS FROM FRANCE , 5 • 13 28 TARDY , THE POISONER , 42 THE FUR - TRADE , 49 FRANCIS CHANTREY , 55 THE OLD WAY OF LIVING IN SCOTLAND , 61 INTERESTING SURGICAL CASE , 81 THE ASS AND THE TREASURE , 86 SLEEP - WALKING , 92 THE COURSE OF ...
... OFFICERS FROM FRANCE , 5 • 13 28 TARDY , THE POISONER , 42 THE FUR - TRADE , 49 FRANCIS CHANTREY , 55 THE OLD WAY OF LIVING IN SCOTLAND , 61 INTERESTING SURGICAL CASE , 81 THE ASS AND THE TREASURE , 86 SLEEP - WALKING , 92 THE COURSE OF ...
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... officers , the loud responses of the men , the clanging of steel , the thundering tramp of countless feet , the snort- ing of the numerous beasts of burden , the occasional acci- dental explosions of muskets , and the unceasing ...
... officers , the loud responses of the men , the clanging of steel , the thundering tramp of countless feet , the snort- ing of the numerous beasts of burden , the occasional acci- dental explosions of muskets , and the unceasing ...
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... officers , and , now at the very moment when his faithful follower was slain , ` he was fighting hand to hand against deadly odds near to that very rampart whence the fatal shot was fired . He had gone among the Afghans in the futile ...
... officers , and , now at the very moment when his faithful follower was slain , ` he was fighting hand to hand against deadly odds near to that very rampart whence the fatal shot was fired . He had gone among the Afghans in the futile ...
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... officers ' wives , was not a whit better than that of our humble heroine . One of the ladies had a baby to take care of ; and another was near her confinement ! Chinga Zung thought not of slumber until he had fed his camel with one or ...
... officers ' wives , was not a whit better than that of our humble heroine . One of the ladies had a baby to take care of ; and another was near her confinement ! Chinga Zung thought not of slumber until he had fed his camel with one or ...
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... officer - Lieutenant Hardyman , 5th light cavalry . Day at last dawned , the troops were roused , and mar- shalled into as good order as the exertions of the officers could effect . The scene may be left to the imagination . Mary ...
... officer - Lieutenant Hardyman , 5th light cavalry . Day at last dawned , the troops were roused , and mar- shalled into as good order as the exertions of the officers could effect . The scene may be left to the imagination . Mary ...
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Page 170 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 170 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Untied unto the world by care Of public fame, or private breath ; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 170 - Or vice ; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good : Who hath his life from rumours freed; Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make...
Page 153 - This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? — Not one.
Page 151 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in it.
Page 16 - It be freed From woes, to all since earliest time decreed ; But mayst thou be with resignation blessed, To bear each evil, howsoe'er distressed. " May Hope her anchor lend amid the storm, And o'er the tempest rear her angel form; May sweet Benevolence, whose words are peace, To the rude whirlwind softly whisper 'Cease!' " And may Religion, Heaven's own darling child, Teach thee at human cares and griefs to smile ; Teach thee to look beyond this world of woe, To Heaven's high fount, whence mercies...
Page 39 - O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was nae stern light,' And they waded through red blude to the knee ; For a' the blude that's shed on earth Rins through the springs o
Page 153 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Page 151 - In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder occurred in some of the white settlements on the Ohio, which were charged to the Indians, though perhaps not justly, for it is well known that a large number of civilized adventurers were traversing the frontiers at this time, who sometimes disguised themselves as Indians, and who thought little more of killing one of that people than of shooting a buffalo. A party of these men, land-jobbers and others, undertook to punish the outrage in this case, according...
Page 18 - Amir Khan" has long been before the public, but we think it has suffered from a general and very natural distrust of precocious genius. The versification is graceful, the story beautifully developed, and the orientalism well sustained. We think it would not have done discredit to our best popular poets in the meridian of their fame : as the production of a girl of fifteen, it seems prodigious.