The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851, Količina 2Dodd, Mead,, 1889 |
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affair agreeable American APRIL arrived Astor Astor House bank beautiful better Boston Broadway brought Buren called Captain Charles Charles King Church Clay Club Colonel Congress Court daughter death dined dinner doubt Edward Curtis elected favour FEBRUARY friends gentleman George Curtis Governor Grinnell guests Harrison Henry Herman Thorn Hone honour hour hundred invited James James G John John Bull John Quincy Adams John Tyler Judge ladies late Loco-foco MARCH Marshfield Mayor meeting ment Messrs Mexico Minturn Miss morning Moses H never noble NOVEMBER o'clock occasion Ogden party consisted patriotism Philadelphia Philip Hone pleasant political Polk Prescott Prescott Hall present President R. M. Blatchford railroad received Robert Senate sent speech splendid street Tammany Hall taste thousand tion to-day Tyler Union United vessel Vice-President vote Washington Washington Irving Webster Whig whilst William wine yesterday York
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Stran 402 - Prayer is the soul's sincere desire Uttered or unexpressed ; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Stran 402 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach, The Majesty on high.
Stran 59 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Stran 73 - Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out I ask nothing more.
Stran 125 - The object of the author was to get up an American spirit, which should be independent of, and above the interests, passions, and policy of both belligerents : and look and feel exclusively for our own honour and rights.
Stran 377 - Mr. President : I WISH to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American, and a member of the Senate of the United States.
Stran 384 - The mania for converting Broadway into a street of shops is greater than ever. There is scarcely a block in the whole extent of this fine street of which some part is not in a state of transmutation.
Stran 402 - The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air: His watchword at the gates of death, — He enters heaven with prayer. Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways : While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry, "Behold, he prays...
Stran 347 - John Jacob Astor died this morning, at nine o'clock, in the eighty-fifth year of his age; sensible to the last, but the material of life exhausted, the machinery worn out, the lamp extinguished for want of oil. Bowed down with bodily infirmity for a long time, he has gone at last, and left reluctantly his unbounded wealth.