Travels in New-England and New-York, Količina 3

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Timothy Dwight, 1823
 

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Stran 197 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Stran 253 - Be it ordained, that the governor for the time being, the chancellor, and the judges of the supreme court, or any two of them, together with the governor, shall be, and hereby are, constituted a council to revise all bills about to be passed into laws by the legislature...
Stran 125 - ... dust of a Hero who, ever attentive to the lives and happiness of his men, dared to lead where any dared to follow ; if a Patriot remember the distinguished and gallant services rendered thy country by the Patriot who sleeps beneath this marble; if thou art honest, generous and worthy...
Stran 252 - ... assembly; if during the time aforesaid, he shall have been a Freeholder, possessing a Freehold of the value of twenty pounds, within the said county, or have rented a tenement therein of the yearly value of forty shillings, and been rated and actually paid taxes to this State...
Stran 468 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Stran 245 - ... a member of and in communion with the Church of England as by law established...
Stran 197 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Stran 489 - The. thunder rolled above. Beneath, the roaring of the fires filled up the intervals with a deep and hollow sound, which seemed to be the protracted murmur of the thunder, reverberated from one end of heaven to the other. Add to this convulsion of the elements, and these dreadful effects of vindictive and wanton devastation, the trembling of the earth ; the sharp sound of muskets, occasionally discharged ; the groans, here and there, of the wounded and dying ; and the shouts of triumph...
Stran 241 - Court of Errors of the state of New York, upon the coming of the said writ of error from this court, made the following return thereto: " State of New York, ss. The president of the senate, the senators, chancellor, and judges of the Supreme Court, in...
Stran 489 - ... crowds of the miserable sufferers, mingled with bodies of the militia, and from the neighboring hills taking a farewell prospect of their property and their dwellings, their happiness and their hopes, and you will form a just, but imperfect, picture of the burning of Fairfield.

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