The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Advertiser, Volumes 1-2William Maxwell 1848 |
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... hope there will be no lack of this amusing lore . Besides these memorials and antiquities which properly belong to the history of our State , we shall also endeavor to collect and diffuse those which relate more immediately to the local ...
... hope there will be no lack of this amusing lore . Besides these memorials and antiquities which properly belong to the history of our State , we shall also endeavor to collect and diffuse those which relate more immediately to the local ...
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... hope to please all our read- ers , who shall not complain that we give them nothing but cold cuts and stale bread , but own that we allow them a little some- thing now and then , that is fresh and warm , and altogether to their tastes ...
... hope to please all our read- ers , who shall not complain that we give them nothing but cold cuts and stale bread , but own that we allow them a little some- thing now and then , that is fresh and warm , and altogether to their tastes ...
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... hope , accordingly , will not be without some fruit . Mr. Burwell , of Bedford , then offered resolutions thanking the President for " his eloquent and instructive Address , " and the Committee for " their zealous and efficient ...
... hope , accordingly , will not be without some fruit . Mr. Burwell , of Bedford , then offered resolutions thanking the President for " his eloquent and instructive Address , " and the Committee for " their zealous and efficient ...
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... hope , to exert a powerful influence upon the future fortunes of the Commonwealth . A general at- tention has been awakened every where , to the intellectual wants of the State ; and the wisdom of its intelligent citizens and of its ...
... hope , to exert a powerful influence upon the future fortunes of the Commonwealth . A general at- tention has been awakened every where , to the intellectual wants of the State ; and the wisdom of its intelligent citizens and of its ...
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... hope to obtain much more . Our purpose is to preserve with care all that is collected , and make public such of it as may be found sufficiently interesting . With these views the committee authorized the Secretary to issue a circular ...
... hope to obtain much more . Our purpose is to preserve with care all that is collected , and make public such of it as may be found sufficiently interesting . With these views the committee authorized the Secretary to issue a circular ...
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Página 200 - A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 34 - Hull, Prepared from his Manuscripts, by his daughter, Mrs. Maria Campbell; together with the History of the Campaign of 1812, and Surrender of the Post of Detroit; by his Grandson, James Freeman Clarke.
Página 221 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Página 16 - Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea, West, and Northwest...
Página 90 - WOULDST thou from sorrow find a sweet relief? Or is thy heart oppressed with woes untold ! Balm wouldst thou gather for corroding grief? Pour blessings round thee like a shower of gold. — 'Tis when the rose is wrapt in many a fold Close to its heart, the worm is wasting there Its life and beauty; not when, all unrolled, Leaf after leaf, its bosom, rich and fair, Breathes freely its perfumes throughout the ambient air...
Página 16 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles ; and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout, from sea to sea, west and north-west...
Página 19 - How that he did divide from Pagans three Their Heads and Lives, Types of his Chivalry. For which great Service in that Climate done, Brave Sigismundus, King of Hungarion, Did give him as a Coat of Armes to wear, These Conquered Heads got by his Sword and Spear.
Página 180 - ... with a dissemination great as the unfoldings' of the air's looser garment, or the wilder fringes of the fire, without knots, or order, or combination; but God gathered the beams in his hand, and united them into a globe of fire, and all the light of the world became the body of the sun...
Página 113 - ... a peculiar people, marked and chosen by the finger of God, to possess it, for undoubtedly he is with us.
Página 18 - Three years, but we have reached it in ten months. This is the day wherein, to all my friends, I will pronounce the happy word, BE RICH ; THIS DAY YOU SHALL BE SPECTATISSIMI.