The Stranger's Gift: A Christmas and New Year's PresentHermann Bokum Light and Horton, 1836 - 103 páginas |
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... perhaps not entirely unfounded conclusions , he was interrupted by the familiar sounds of his native language , in which he was addressed by the peasant who had come over with him from Germany . The country in which both of them had ...
... perhaps not entirely unfounded conclusions , he was interrupted by the familiar sounds of his native language , in which he was addressed by the peasant who had come over with him from Germany . The country in which both of them had ...
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... perhaps greatly mis- taken . It is not only the consciousness that religion , " the home of the spirit , " is now their only home , which serves to produce a deep and salutary influ- ence on them ; there are many peculiar circum ...
... perhaps greatly mis- taken . It is not only the consciousness that religion , " the home of the spirit , " is now their only home , which serves to produce a deep and salutary influ- ence on them ; there are many peculiar circum ...
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... perhaps some other adventurer more successful in keeping his fellow - men in intellectual and social bondage . But I refrain at present from enlarging on these deeply interesting topics , since I hope to extend my next pedestrian tour ...
... perhaps some other adventurer more successful in keeping his fellow - men in intellectual and social bondage . But I refrain at present from enlarging on these deeply interesting topics , since I hope to extend my next pedestrian tour ...
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... perhaps their number is but small - who , when they have met with a good book , enter so fully into the spirit of the author , that they might be said rather to reproduce than to read the work . May they never enter a canal boat , since ...
... perhaps their number is but small - who , when they have met with a good book , enter so fully into the spirit of the author , that they might be said rather to reproduce than to read the work . May they never enter a canal boat , since ...
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... perhaps reminding you of the contrast between the idea of the infinite and your own transitory existence , and now again by their beauty and loveliness inviting you to seek there a permanent home . Behold here a tree , which ...
... perhaps reminding you of the contrast between the idea of the infinite and your own transitory existence , and now again by their beauty and loveliness inviting you to seek there a permanent home . Behold here a tree , which ...
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The Stranger's Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present (Classic Reprint) Hermann Bokum Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Stranger's Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present (Classic Reprint) Hermann Bokum Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
American Germans Americo-German arrived beautiful become acquainted blessed boat Boston character children of God Christmas Congregational churches countrymen course cultivated descendants dialects Dutch language endeavor England English enjoy enter Evangelical excite exclaimed express favor feeling flock fluence foreign forest friends German emigrants German language habits hear heart heaven High Dutch hope host Hudson indulge influence instruction intercourse intimately acquainted John Adams labors land language Light & Horton likewise Lord lost Church Low Dutch Low German Lutheran church means meet minister Mohawk morning native native Americans nature neighbors once owing partly peculiar pedestrian perhaps pilgrim fathers poet population portion prayer preaching present preserve reader regard religious and intellectual remind Sabbath Saratoga Springs Saugerties scenes seems settlers social society soul sound speak spirit stranger STRANGER'S GIFT synod thought tion Trenton Falls United States Bank views voice worship
Pasajes populares
Página 27 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 64 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Página 73 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Página 69 - But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once. The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire; Adieu, adieu, adieu, remember me.
Página 67 - The judges shall determine controversies without a jury. " No one shall be a freeman, or give a vote, unless he be converted, and a member in full communion of one of the Churches allowed in this Dominion.
Página 93 - Lutheran, as found in the United States. This, in reference to the systems before mentioned, is Eclectic in its nature. It embraces all those principles and precepts, of permanent obligation, which are contained in the New Testament, and such other regulations dictated by reason, best adapted to the genius of our free republican institutions, and calculated most successfully to advance the cause of Christ. The fundamental features of this system are the following, viz. 1 . Parity of ministers, 2....
Página 88 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God...
Página 42 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Página 65 - Nature reserves to herself the prerogative of giving to her visitors the rapturous impression. The view of these falls varies exceedingly, according to the plenitude or paucity of the waters. In the autumnal floods, and particularly the spring freshets, arising from the sudden liquefaction of snow in the northern country, the river is swelled a hundred-fold, and comes rushing in a vast body of tumultuous foam from the summit rock into the broad basin at the bottom. It is at this time tremendous indeed,...
Página 96 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof fadeth away ; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever.