A New Home--who'll Follow?: Or, Glimpses of Western LifeC. S. Francis, 1839 - 337 ページ |
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... Michigan , the merit of general truth of outline . Beyond this I venture not to aspire . I felt somewhat tempted to set forth my little book as being entirely , what it is very nearly - a veritable history ; an unimpeachable transcript ...
... Michigan , the merit of general truth of outline . Beyond this I venture not to aspire . I felt somewhat tempted to set forth my little book as being entirely , what it is very nearly - a veritable history ; an unimpeachable transcript ...
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... Michigan , what would she not have made of such materials as Tinkerville , Montacute , and the Turnip ? When my husband purchased two hundred acres of wild land on the banks of this to - be - celebrated stream , and drew with a piece of ...
... Michigan , what would she not have made of such materials as Tinkerville , Montacute , and the Turnip ? When my husband purchased two hundred acres of wild land on the banks of this to - be - celebrated stream , and drew with a piece of ...
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... Michigan deserve a poet of their own . Shelley , who sang so quaintly of " the pied wind - flowers and the tulip tall , " would have found many a fanciful comparison and deep - drawn meaning for the thousand gems of the road - side ...
... Michigan deserve a poet of their own . Shelley , who sang so quaintly of " the pied wind - flowers and the tulip tall , " would have found many a fanciful comparison and deep - drawn meaning for the thousand gems of the road - side ...
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... Michigan mud - hole , I may as well enter into a detailed memoir on the sub- ject , for the benefit of future travellers , who , flying over the soil on rail - roads , may look slightingly back upon the achievements of their ...
... Michigan mud - hole , I may as well enter into a detailed memoir on the sub- ject , for the benefit of future travellers , who , flying over the soil on rail - roads , may look slightingly back upon the achievements of their ...
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... Michigan . 66 Our vehicle was not perhaps very judiciously chosen ; -at least we have since thought so . It was a light high - hung carriage - of the description commonly known as a buggy or shandrydan - names of which I would be glad ...
... Michigan . 66 Our vehicle was not perhaps very judiciously chosen ; -at least we have since thought so . It was a light high - hung carriage - of the description commonly known as a buggy or shandrydan - names of which I would be glad ...
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78 ページ - Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body ; therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years: this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.
152 ページ - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
107 ページ - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
89 ページ - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
250 ページ - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
181 ページ - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where...
133 ページ - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song, Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
116 ページ - The pen, and ink, and a sheet o' paper, and a wafer,' is no unusual request ; and when the pen is returned, you are generally informed, that you sent ' an awful bad pen.' " I have been frequently reminded of one of Johnson's humorous sketches. A man returning a broken wheel-barrow to a Quaker, with ' Here, I 've broke your rotten wheel-barrow, usin
116 ページ - I wish you'd get it mended right off, 'cause I want to borrow it again this afternoon." The Quaker is made to reply, "Friend, it shall be done:" and I wish I possessed more of his spirit.