The Ladies' Repository, Volume 44A. Tompkins, 1870 |
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... soon completed , the trunks in order , the unfortunate Empress Josephine , and there , big bag and little bag at hand , and we tried too , are other associations which would ren- to wait patiently for the " time enough der a visit ...
... soon completed , the trunks in order , the unfortunate Empress Josephine , and there , big bag and little bag at hand , and we tried too , are other associations which would ren- to wait patiently for the " time enough der a visit ...
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... soon alongside . One hurried farewell , and ascending the stairs we station ourselves on deck to see the last that we shall ever see of dear , beautiful Martinique . Slowly the scene changes , slowly it fades from my view - still ...
... soon alongside . One hurried farewell , and ascending the stairs we station ourselves on deck to see the last that we shall ever see of dear , beautiful Martinique . Slowly the scene changes , slowly it fades from my view - still ...
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... soon packed , and as they were about to leave , Sheck was miss- ing . After repeated calls , he came from the kitchen , licking his lips , and looking back at his benefactress . He was soon placed in the carriage beside his mistress ...
... soon packed , and as they were about to leave , Sheck was miss- ing . After repeated calls , he came from the kitchen , licking his lips , and looking back at his benefactress . He was soon placed in the carriage beside his mistress ...
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... soon knew the best dan- cers , the most amusing old gentlemen ; and the young Ensign Birkenstock , who was a distant relation and might address her as " cousin , " was her ready admirer , and also showed himself devoted to her friend ...
... soon knew the best dan- cers , the most amusing old gentlemen ; and the young Ensign Birkenstock , who was a distant relation and might address her as " cousin , " was her ready admirer , and also showed himself devoted to her friend ...
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... soon find a hus- band who would know how to value this fulness of heart and soul , and these intellec- tual endowments . " Louise also was frank enough to confess that she wished to marry ; but year after year passed , she stood in ...
... soon find a hus- band who would know how to value this fulness of heart and soul , and these intellec- tual endowments . " Louise also was frank enough to confess that she wished to marry ; but year after year passed , she stood in ...
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Page 224 - I do charge you before the Lord God and his holy angels, that you be lowly, diligent, and tender, fearing God, loving the people, and hating covetousness. Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it ; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live therefore the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor.
Page 437 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 307 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 227 - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and -the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 227 - In the days of these kings, saith the prophet Daniel (ii. 44), the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed...
Page 437 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt! Though sullied and dishonored, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, . And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
Page 165 - ... perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space filled with young shrimps in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand.
Page 234 - ... the awful power of insight " ; but his mood was always cheerful and equal, and his mind peculiarly healthful, and the airy splendor of his wit and humor was the light of his home. He saw too far to be despondent, though his vivid sympathies and shaping imagination often made him sad in behalf of others. He also perceived morbidness, wherever it existed, instantly, as if by the illumination of his own steady cheer ; and he had the plastic power of putting himself into each person's situation,...
Page 226 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 164 - Walking by the seaside in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or rather very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height perhaps of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water.