Glimpses of the Life and Times of A.V H. CarpenterLanward Publishing Company, 1890 - 144 páginas |
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A. V. H. CARPENTER acquainted American arrived Boston boys BRADLEY brother Burlington centrifugal forces Chicago Colonel Moore Commandery commenced commissions conductor course degree duty election engaged engineer England enterprise fact father force fortune Freemasonry freight friends grand Green Mountain Boy Hampshire grants hand heart honor idea immigrants industry interest JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD known LAKE land lives Manager manor born Masonry Masons matter ment Merrill Merrill's miles Milwaukee & St mind Montpelier nature never Northfield Northwest occasion party Passenger Agent Passenger and Ticket pater familias Paul Railway person portion position President race railway service railway world respect River road Rock running soon stage Superintendent term things Ticket Agent tion took train trip Vermont Central Railroad waukee White River Junction Wisconsin Yankee York Rite
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Página 136 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 116 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Página 123 - Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives!
Página 123 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Página 123 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Página 116 - We have thus heard, Sir, what the resolution is which is actually before us for consideration; and it will readily occur to every one, that it is almost the only subject about which something has not been said in the speech, running through two days, by which the Senate has been entertained by the gentleman from South Carolina.
Página 123 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the...
Página 3 - With your red woollen caps, and your moccasins, come, To the gathering summons of trumpet and drum. Come down with your rifles ! Let gray wolf and fox Howl on in the shade of their primitive rocks; Let the bear feed securely from pig-pen and stall; Here's two-legged game for your powder and ball.
Página 122 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 3 - old Bay State" threaten? Does Congress complain? Swarms Hampshire in arms on our borders again? Bark the war-dogs of Britain aloud on the lake? Let 'em come; — what they can, they are welcome to take. What seek they among us? The pride of our wealth Is comfort, contentment, and...