The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags, and Other LecturesWilliam Henry Milburn was a blind Methodist clergyman. A friend of notables including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he was Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate fifty years later (1893 until his death in 1903). He preached and lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. |
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... establish an institution of learn- ing . Traversing the trackless mazes of the woods , they are not seldom greeted by the crack of a rifle , and a bullet whistling near their ear from an Indian ambuscade . Their journeys take them ...
... establish an institution of learn- ing . Traversing the trackless mazes of the woods , they are not seldom greeted by the crack of a rifle , and a bullet whistling near their ear from an Indian ambuscade . Their journeys take them ...
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... established , to regulate such larger assemblages as there may be , while often a frigid and artificial conventionalism seems to control even the most select intercourse of friendship . Conversa- tion is the employment of the groups and ...
... established , to regulate such larger assemblages as there may be , while often a frigid and artificial conventionalism seems to control even the most select intercourse of friendship . Conversa- tion is the employment of the groups and ...
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... established that the strong may hunt the weak , that those that are whole , needing not a physician , may cruelly taunt and maltreat those that are sick ? that the wounded stag may perish by the antlers of his unhurt fellows ? Shall the ...
... established that the strong may hunt the weak , that those that are whole , needing not a physician , may cruelly taunt and maltreat those that are sick ? that the wounded stag may perish by the antlers of his unhurt fellows ? Shall the ...
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... rogues and the folly of dupes ; in the other , John Law , a canny Scot , who had established a private bank , and was doing a thriving business , assuming the style and position of an opulent capitalist , possessing the entire confi- dence.
... rogues and the folly of dupes ; in the other , John Law , a canny Scot , who had established a private bank , and was doing a thriving business , assuming the style and position of an opulent capitalist , possessing the entire confi- dence.
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... established a fort and laid the foundations of a town on the site of the present city of Natchez , giving to it the name of Fort Rosalie , in honor of the Coun- tess Pontchartrain , wife of the French Minister of Marine , D'Iberville's ...
... established a fort and laid the foundations of a town on the site of the present city of Natchez , giving to it the name of Fort Rosalie , in honor of the Coun- tess Pontchartrain , wife of the French Minister of Marine , D'Iberville's ...
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Page 88 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Page 115 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 121 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 144 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement. From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Page 111 - Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so...
Page 111 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 116 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books...
Page 145 - Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly. Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity.
Page xix - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 71 - God will be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless.