Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - 258 páginas |
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Página 17
... hand , crowded populations hamper the spirit . They afford fewer chances for original growth . The city produces men . The country produces a man . But the child needs for companionship something more than human beings about it . It ...
... hand , crowded populations hamper the spirit . They afford fewer chances for original growth . The city produces men . The country produces a man . But the child needs for companionship something more than human beings about it . It ...
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... I was three years old I was full size , and had come to dexterous use of my legs and hands and tongue . My senses were all alert , and I received many strange and curious impres- sions . As all children do , I lived in 3 I WAS BORN . 33.
... I was three years old I was full size , and had come to dexterous use of my legs and hands and tongue . My senses were all alert , and I received many strange and curious impres- sions . As all children do , I lived in 3 I WAS BORN . 33.
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... hands and face and neck and feet . The charcoal , rubbed with coarse palms , brought the blood from my face in a place or two ; but it was a case in which the end justified the means , and I stood it without a cry . " Now , " said Pogus ...
... hands and face and neck and feet . The charcoal , rubbed with coarse palms , brought the blood from my face in a place or two ; but it was a case in which the end justified the means , and I stood it without a cry . " Now , " said Pogus ...
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... hands . If I had died , the death would have been attributed to a mysterious providence , and not to Nancy ; for she did her best with me , and through this six years of my life her devotion to me never relaxed . I suffered quite a good ...
... hands . If I had died , the death would have been attributed to a mysterious providence , and not to Nancy ; for she did her best with me , and through this six years of my life her devotion to me never relaxed . I suffered quite a good ...
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... hands of an English company , who took it , with an enormous grant of land ; and it was finally completed . This canal extended from Evansville , by way of Terre Haute and Lafay- ette , to the Ohio line in the northern part of the State ...
... hands of an English company , who took it , with an enormous grant of land ; and it was finally completed . This canal extended from Evansville , by way of Terre Haute and Lafay- ette , to the Ohio line in the northern part of the State ...
Términos y frases comunes
animal beauty became Bertran birds black bass Blannerhassett breath Bruno cabin canal cattle caught chase child Croppie dead Delawares delirium tremens Dog and wolf Dorkey eagle Elenor Erie Canal Evansville face father fearful feeling feet fight fish gone grass ground hands Hazelgreen Heakle heart herds horse hour human hundred hunt hunter Indian Jack Hardy jack-oak Jimmy keep killed killed Uncle King Lear knew Lena limb living look mental miles mind moral morning mother mules Nancy nature Nemo never night old Jim opossum pipe of peace prairie pull road Rodney Shawnee side sight sort soul spirit stars stood stream tell things thought threw timber to-day tomahawk took trees turned venison Wakarusa walked whisky wigwam wild witches wolf woman woods young
Pasajes populares
Página 239 - 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 . O, what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed!
Página 11 - Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs ; To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music, lest it should not find An echo in another's mind, While the touch of Nature's art Harmonizes heart to heart.
Página 108 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Página 213 - Over wide and rushing rivers In his arms he bore the maiden ; Light he thought her as a feather, As the plume upon his head-gear; Cleared the tangled pathway for her, Bent aside the swaying branches, Made at night a lodge of branches, And a bed with boughs of hemlock, And a fire before the doorway With the dry cones of the pine-tree.
Página 213 - Pleasant was the journey homeward Through interminable forests, Over meadow, over mountain, Over river, hill, and hollow. Short it seemed to Hiawatha, Though they journeyed very slowly, Though his pace he checked and slackened To the steps of Laughing Water.
Página 69 - God abhorr'd, with violence rude to break The thread of life, ere half its length was run, And rob a wretched brother of his being. With joy Ambition saw, and soon improved The execrable deed.
Página 94 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
Página 88 - My name is Norval : on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
Página 132 - The heavens declare the glory of God : and the firmament sheweth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Página 69 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.