Merry's Book of Travel and AdventureUncle Merry H. Dayton, 1860 - 240 sider |
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Side 43
... thing when he had once undertaken it - an excellent trait of character , which I hope the reader will labor to acquire , for it is one of the best aids to success in life . I would not have the reader understand the above remark after ...
... thing when he had once undertaken it - an excellent trait of character , which I hope the reader will labor to acquire , for it is one of the best aids to success in life . I would not have the reader understand the above remark after ...
Side 44
Uncle Merry. a thing , but having formed it , persevere at all hazards . " A young lad sat at his desk and took notes of the advice , and wrote out in full the last sentence . The teacher was rather pleased to have so much atten- tion ...
Uncle Merry. a thing , but having formed it , persevere at all hazards . " A young lad sat at his desk and took notes of the advice , and wrote out in full the last sentence . The teacher was rather pleased to have so much atten- tion ...
Side 45
... thing , but having formed it , to persevere at all hazards ! I wrote down your words at the time , sir , " taking his notes from his desk . " I was a long time forming the resolution . I began to think about it when the plum tree was in ...
... thing , but having formed it , to persevere at all hazards ! I wrote down your words at the time , sir , " taking his notes from his desk . " I was a long time forming the resolution . I began to think about it when the plum tree was in ...
Side 46
... thing . Uncle Henry felt a great interest in Franklin , and when he visited the family , he always talked more with him than with any other member of the family . He had a way of drawing out of him all his plans and desires . Franklin ...
... thing . Uncle Henry felt a great interest in Franklin , and when he visited the family , he always talked more with him than with any other member of the family . He had a way of drawing out of him all his plans and desires . Franklin ...
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... thing he wishes to make , the end which he desires to attain , and then bends all his energies with untiring in- dustry to the realization of that conception , the at- tainment of that end . So with Washington . He formed the conception ...
... thing he wishes to make , the end which he desires to attain , and then bends all his energies with untiring in- dustry to the realization of that conception , the at- tainment of that end . So with Washington . He formed the conception ...
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Side 224 - 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.
Side 105 - ... me, and perceiving that I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation, which I briefly explained to her; whereupon, with looks of great compassion, she took up my saddle and bridle, and told me to follow her.
Side 114 - One burnished sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled, In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And island that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Side 105 - They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung by one of the young women, the rest joining in a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Side 62 - ... difficulty. My comrade going first, a track, which appeared to him more practicable and shorter than the regular path, led us astray. It was my fault. Ought I to have trusted to a head of twenty years? We sought our way out of the wood while it was yet light; but the more we looked for the path the farther we were off it.
Side 63 - Supper ended, they left us. Our hosts slept below; we on the story where we had been eating. In a sort of platform raised seven or eight feet, where we were to mount by a ladder, was the bed that awaited us — a nest into which we had to introduce ourselves by jumping over barrels filled with provisions for all the year.
Side 63 - That nothing might be omitted that could tend to our destruction, he must, forsooth, play the rich man, promising these folks to pay them well for their hospitality ; and then he must prate about his portmanteau, earnestly beseeching them to take care of it, and put it at the head of his bed, for he wanted no other pillow. Ah, youth, youth ! how art thou to be pitied!
Side 115 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venue Down...
Side 105 - About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose, that he might graze at liberty, a woman, returning from the labours of the field, stopped to observe me, and...
Side 115 - Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,