The People's Magazine, Volume 1Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1834 |
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... arrived when he was to open to his blinded countrymen the path to unbounded wealth : but , on reaching Deptford , the vessel was seized by a custom house officer , brought back , and ex- chequered . This was a severe blow , but Ledyard ...
... arrived when he was to open to his blinded countrymen the path to unbounded wealth : but , on reaching Deptford , the vessel was seized by a custom house officer , brought back , and ex- chequered . This was a severe blow , but Ledyard ...
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... arrived at , and departed from Albany , during 1830 , was 12,830 , conveying more than 100,000 tons of merchandise paying toll by weight , besides an immense amount of lumber , wood , & c . tolls in the same year amounted to 954,328 ...
... arrived at , and departed from Albany , during 1830 , was 12,830 , conveying more than 100,000 tons of merchandise paying toll by weight , besides an immense amount of lumber , wood , & c . tolls in the same year amounted to 954,328 ...
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... arrival at Fort George he came into my room in a state of intoxication , and ungovernable rage , with a vessel containing rum in his left hand , and in his right his hunting - kr.ife ; in short , his whole appearance was wild and savage ...
... arrival at Fort George he came into my room in a state of intoxication , and ungovernable rage , with a vessel containing rum in his left hand , and in his right his hunting - kr.ife ; in short , his whole appearance was wild and savage ...
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... arrived , a very general noise ensues , the business of the court is opened , and shortly after , they all fall upon one or two individual crows ( who are sup- posed to have been condemned by their peers ) and put them to death . When ...
... arrived , a very general noise ensues , the business of the court is opened , and shortly after , they all fall upon one or two individual crows ( who are sup- posed to have been condemned by their peers ) and put them to death . When ...
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... arrived at the spot . It is the worst Pass in the whole road over the Cordillera Mountains . The mountain above appears almost perpendicular , and in one continued slope down to a rapid torrent that is raging underneath . The surface is ...
... arrived at the spot . It is the worst Pass in the whole road over the Cordillera Mountains . The mountain above appears almost perpendicular , and in one continued slope down to a rapid torrent that is raging underneath . The surface is ...
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Page 84 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end: Were this frail world our only rest.
Page 183 - A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 116 - I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 51 - Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west. Emblem, methought, of the departed soul, To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given ; And by the breath of mercy made to roll Right onward to the golden gates of Heaven ; Where to the eye of Faith it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies.
Page 180 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 188 - Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers, And pass the prairie-hawk that, poised on high, Flaps his broad wings, yet moves not - ye have played Among the palms of Mexico and vines Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks That from the fountains of Sonora glide Into the calm Pacific - have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this?
Page 84 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath. Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire.
Page 30 - Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain...
Page 101 - Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun so rise For years — I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score, When my last brother droop'd and died, And I lay living by his side.
Page 15 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground?