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... remember to have made several trips with them , accompanying outward bound ships , and one on a special errand to Naushon with a relative , to look after the island and examine the condition of the old " Mansion House " of the Bowdoins ...
... remember to have made several trips with them , accompanying outward bound ships , and one on a special errand to Naushon with a relative , to look after the island and examine the condition of the old " Mansion House " of the Bowdoins ...
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... remember the odor of spices and snuff that per- vaded the old place . Nearly opposite was a small building where " Tim Tallman " kept a few grocer- ies and the inevitable snuff and tobacco . Crossing the street near by was a stream with ...
... remember the odor of spices and snuff that per- vaded the old place . Nearly opposite was a small building where " Tim Tallman " kept a few grocer- ies and the inevitable snuff and tobacco . Crossing the street near by was a stream with ...
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... remember it , of a faded out green color , called " the old Isaac Howland house . " Opposite lived the widow of Moses Grinnell , and next above , her son , the late Charles Grinnell , built a commo- dious house , still standing . A ...
... remember it , of a faded out green color , called " the old Isaac Howland house . " Opposite lived the widow of Moses Grinnell , and next above , her son , the late Charles Grinnell , built a commo- dious house , still standing . A ...
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... remember him , a middle aged man , was of good height and stout build , with a full , fresh - looking face , and large grayish eyes . He was decidedly of the old school , and wore knee- breeches , and usually top boots , as he always ...
... remember him , a middle aged man , was of good height and stout build , with a full , fresh - looking face , and large grayish eyes . He was decidedly of the old school , and wore knee- breeches , and usually top boots , as he always ...
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... remember with respect . At this time , and in the house next above the residence of Joseph Ricketson , lived Nathaniel H. Hathaway , and after him , Jireh Perry , Charles Swain , and still later , Robert S. Smith . Thence , west , to ...
... remember with respect . At this time , and in the house next above the residence of Joseph Ricketson , lived Nathaniel H. Hathaway , and after him , Jireh Perry , Charles Swain , and still later , Robert S. Smith . Thence , west , to ...
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Page 51 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 115 - 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...
Page 30 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 109 - Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
Page 170 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 115 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 87 - The humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one religion, and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
Page 83 - THE Quaker of the olden time! — How calm and firm and true, Unspotted by its wrong and crime. He walked the dark earth through The lust of power, the love of gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small, And knows how each man's life affects The spiritual life of all, He walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law ; The presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw.