The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review, Volume 13B.B. Minor, 1847 |
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... Captain , and sometime before the fortunately , is not exactly true . Rudolph is per- formation of the celebrated Legion . This select haps quite as frequently mentioned in our domestic body of troops was formed under an order of Wash ...
... Captain , and sometime before the fortunately , is not exactly true . Rudolph is per- formation of the celebrated Legion . This select haps quite as frequently mentioned in our domestic body of troops was formed under an order of Wash ...
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... Captain and twenty - eight British fortress of " Ninety - Six . " It was deter- sailors , were captured . A few days after this mined to take the place by storm , as it was found event , fighting hand - to - hand , he dismounted and ...
... Captain and twenty - eight British fortress of " Ninety - Six . " It was deter- sailors , were captured . A few days after this mined to take the place by storm , as it was found event , fighting hand - to - hand , he dismounted and ...
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... Captain Butler in South Carolina , and that discreet promise , and much more so , to boast of it it was not necessary to designate him by the indeffi- afterwards : —we still think that Brown's " bitter- nite article , as we have done in ...
... Captain Butler in South Carolina , and that discreet promise , and much more so , to boast of it it was not necessary to designate him by the indeffi- afterwards : —we still think that Brown's " bitter- nite article , as we have done in ...
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... captain has always been distinguished for his gratitude , he repaid the skilful teacher a hundred fold , by a puff in Schloss Hainfeld , ' that made him at once a man of notoriety and fortune . " The handsome American Edition of ...
... captain has always been distinguished for his gratitude , he repaid the skilful teacher a hundred fold , by a puff in Schloss Hainfeld , ' that made him at once a man of notoriety and fortune . " The handsome American Edition of ...
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... Captain Bartholomew Gosnold , further search was then made for the unfor- deviating from the oblique route by the Ca- tunate Colonists . None of them ever was naries and the West Indies , made a direct found , and whether they perished ...
... Captain Bartholomew Gosnold , further search was then made for the unfor- deviating from the oblique route by the Ca- tunate Colonists . None of them ever was naries and the West Indies , made a direct found , and whether they perished ...
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Page 7 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 300 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 331 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Page 409 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 199 - You did promise Powhatan what was yours should bee his, and he the like to you; you called him father being in his land a stranger, and by the same reason so must I doe you...
Page 204 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Page 160 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Page 99 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 161 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 320 - That the people of Virginia have free trade as the people of England do enjoy to all places and with all nations according to the lawes of that commonwealth, and that Virginia shall enjoy all priviledges equall with any English plantations in America.