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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... Olive Company , " Ill Success of the Adventure , Dispersion of the Settlers , Anglo - Saxon Supremacy , . 291 · · 293 295 . 297 299 . 301 . 303 • 305 · · 307 . 309 INTRODUCTION . IT has come to be somewhat common for X CONTENTS .
... Olive Company , " Ill Success of the Adventure , Dispersion of the Settlers , Anglo - Saxon Supremacy , . 291 · · 293 295 . 297 299 . 301 . 303 • 305 · · 307 . 309 INTRODUCTION . IT has come to be somewhat common for X CONTENTS .
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... success and happiness through life . " But this chivalrous feeling , so characteristic of western men when they meet bold thought and action combined , carried these gentlemen to more positive acts of kindness ; becoming acquainted with ...
... success and happiness through life . " But this chivalrous feeling , so characteristic of western men when they meet bold thought and action combined , carried these gentlemen to more positive acts of kindness ; becoming acquainted with ...
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... success fully justified its sagacity . Stepping into the field at a time when a number of the richest and most fertile minds in the country were engaged before the public as lecturers , and when the pub- lic ear had grown fastidious ...
... success fully justified its sagacity . Stepping into the field at a time when a number of the richest and most fertile minds in the country were engaged before the public as lecturers , and when the pub- lic ear had grown fastidious ...
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... success- fully be done by reaching an isolated rock lying in one of the ravines on the southern side of the hill ... successful shot , 38 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS .
... success- fully be done by reaching an isolated rock lying in one of the ravines on the southern side of the hill ... successful shot , 38 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS .
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William Henry Milburn. THE MYSTERIOUS SHOT . 39 upon one successful shot , and although but an inch or two of the warrior's body was exposed , and that at a distance of eighty or a hundred yards , be resolved to risk all ; and coolly ...
William Henry Milburn. THE MYSTERIOUS SHOT . 39 upon one successful shot , and although but an inch or two of the warrior's body was exposed , and that at a distance of eighty or a hundred yards , be resolved to risk all ; and coolly ...
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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...
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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.