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... asked for the plen- VOL . XXVI . - 3 . ary indulgence , for which he again knelt , and confessed again . At noon , the chaplain and the captain of the bark St. Joseph , then lying in port at Monterey , came to visit him . He welcomed ...
... asked for the plen- VOL . XXVI . - 3 . ary indulgence , for which he again knelt , and confessed again . At noon , the chaplain and the captain of the bark St. Joseph , then lying in port at Monterey , came to visit him . He welcomed ...
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... asked how the baby was , and if it had been seasick . On being told that it was all right , and had not shown a sign of illness , she expressed her gratification , and lay back among her rugs . The nurse and the waiting - maid traveled ...
... asked how the baby was , and if it had been seasick . On being told that it was all right , and had not shown a sign of illness , she expressed her gratification , and lay back among her rugs . The nurse and the waiting - maid traveled ...
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... asked for a " small piece of the Chi - ni - kwe ink . " I refused it , repeating what I had already said . For a time he looked blank , but finally asked if I would not lend him some of it . Again I refused , saying " I could not trust ...
... asked for a " small piece of the Chi - ni - kwe ink . " I refused it , repeating what I had already said . For a time he looked blank , but finally asked if I would not lend him some of it . Again I refused , saying " I could not trust ...
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... asked him when he had made me read the questions and answers over two or three times , and said I had pro- nounced them all right . " It means what you will say to Lai - iu - lut- sa to - morrow night when you go to see her . " I was ...
... asked him when he had made me read the questions and answers over two or three times , and said I had pro- nounced them all right . " It means what you will say to Lai - iu - lut- sa to - morrow night when you go to see her . " I was ...
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... asked , with mock tenderness · " Father , does it hurt ? " " Will you never teach to others your leading a band of four or five others , in the magic ? " TORTURING A SORCERER . " Ai - o , " moaned the old man , in a weak voice . “ I die ...
... asked , with mock tenderness · " Father , does it hurt ? " " Will you never teach to others your leading a band of four or five others , in the magic ? " TORTURING A SORCERER . " Ai - o , " moaned the old man , in a weak voice . “ I die ...
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Page 90 - Stain my man's cheeks !— No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 129 - To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; And to depart from evil is understanding.
Page 129 - And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there...
Page 530 - What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? Despicable biped! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee? Death? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will or can do against thee! Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer...
Page 402 - I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to 'remember them that are in bonds as bound with them'.
Page 404 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 530 - Fool! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself; thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of — what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic?
Page 129 - I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth:' As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky. Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
Page 86 - Let every house be placed, if the person pleases, in the middle of its plat, as to the breadth way of it, that so there may be ground on each side for gardens or orchards, or fields, that it may be a green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome.
Page 530 - Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatso it be: and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee? Let it come, then: I will meet it and defy it!