America as I Found itJ. Nisbet and Company, 1852 - 380 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 141 - Bring flowers, fresh flowers, for the bride to wear, They were born to blush in her shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth : Her place is now by another's side. Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride...
Pàgina 288 - ... varied and noble establishments, the sole object of which is to lighten, if not remove, the load of the burdened. We find it instructive to look from the institution to its source, and can generally trace it to a single bosom where the chord of compassion has been touched by a sight of distress — and from that we thankfully follow it higher, till we reach Him from whom compassions flow, and who hath the hearts of all men in his hand, and turneth them as He turneth the rivers of water. Thus...
Pàgina 12 - They are, by nature, frank, brave, cordial, hospitable, and affectionate. Cultivation and refinement seem but to enhance their warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm ; and it is the possession of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree which renders an edncated American one of the most endearing and most generous of friends.
Pàgina 23 - I have felt it difficult to abstain from congratulating the mourners with a '; blessed are the dead who are already dead, more than the living who are yet alive.
Pàgina 203 - I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Pàgina 312 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Pàgina 73 - The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on * A quaint name for the United States.
Pàgina 300 - Hath never yet been shadowed forth in sound, Or told in language. So, ye voiceless pair, Pass on in hope. For ye may build as firm Your silent altar in each other's hearts, And catch the sunshine through the clouds of time, As cheerily as though the pomp of speech Did herald forth the deed. And when...
Pàgina 22 - ... dim fog on the sea ! How real is eternity, when one that we have loved, and love still, is there ! ' One that I love is there,' that gives our hearts a local habitation in eternity. This event tells us that we are nearer our journey's end now than we were yesterday. The Jordan is not far off — a few breathings of the air of the wilderness, a few steps across the dreary sands, and then we reach home...