The Leather Stocking Tales, 第 4 巻

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Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1876

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17 ページ - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
321 ページ - It was rather the yielding of nature than a compliance with this unexpected order that caused the head of our heroine to sink on her bosom ; when she heard the report / of the rifle, the whizzing of the bullet, and the enraged cries of the beast, who was rolling over on the earth, biting its own flesh and tearing the twigs and branches within its reach. At the next instant the form of the LeatherStocking...
318 ページ - be quiet, Brave! What do you see, fellow?" At the sounds of her voice, the rage of the Mastiff, instead of being at all diminished, was very sensibly increased. He stalked in front of the ladies and seated himself at the feet of his mistress, growling louder than before, and occasionally giving vent to his ire by a short, surly barking. "What does he see?" said Elizabeth; "there must be some animal in sight.
372 ページ - ... driven him to wish that the beasts of the forest, who never feast on the blood of their own families, was his kindred and race; and now, when he has come to see the last brand of his hut, before it is melted into ashes, you follow him up, at midnight, like hungry hounds on the track of a wornout and dying deer! What more would ye have? for I am here — one to many. I come to mourn, not to fight, and, if it is God's pleasure, work your will on me.
137 ページ - But I say unto you, love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you.
141 ページ - That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
319 ページ - This ignorant, but vicious creature, approached the dog, imitating the actions and sounds of its parent, but exhibiting a strange mixture of the playfulness of a kitten with the ferocity of its race. Standing on its hind legs, it would rend the bark of a tree with its...
317 ページ - Such things frequently happen," returned Louisa. "Let us follow the sounds: it may be a wanderer starving on the hill." Urged by this consideration, the females pursued the low, mournful sounds, that proceeded from the forest, with quick and impatient steps. More than once the ardent Elizabeth was on the point of announcing that she saw the sufferer, when Louisa caught...
399 ページ - It is immaterial whether it be one or the other," interrupted Miss Temple, with a logic that contained more feeling than reason; "I know Natty to be innocent, and, thinking so, I must think all wrong who oppress him.
xxxiii ページ - This rigid adhesion to truth, an indispensable requisite in history and travels, destroys the charm of fiction ; for all that is necessary to be conveyed to the mind by the latter had better be done by delineations of principles, and of characters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals.

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