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Page 80 - Write them together, it is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure them,
Page 21 - While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; * * * * * If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep/ The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep.
Page 17 - and the employment of her intellectual faculties, or the acquirement of a new idea, gives her a vivid pleasure, which is plainly marked in her expressive features. She never seems to repine, but has all the buoyancy and gayety of Childhood. She is fond of fun and frolic, and when playing with the rest of the children, her
Page 65 - there she was again, actually clapping her little hands for joy, as she dragged him through the small door of her small cabin, to look at the baby as he lay asleep ! We went to a large hotel, called the Planter's House : built like an English hospital, with long passages and bare walls, and
Page 16 - which differed not from the furniture of the house, save in warmth, and in the power of locomation ; and not even in these respects from the dog and the cat. " But the immortal spirit which had been implanted within her could not die, nor be maimed nor mutilated ; and, though most
Page 13 - all, in their whole course of study and instruction, recognise a world, and a broad one too, lying beyond the college walls. It was a source of inexpressible pleasure to me to observe the almost imperceptible, but not ess certain effect wrought by this institution among the small community of Boston, and to
Page 17 - board, and read them with apparent pleas•ure. " She was exercised for several weeks in this way, until her vocabulary became extensive ; and then the important step was taken of teaching her how to represent the different letters by the position of her fingers, instead of the cumbrous apparatus of the
Page 16 - The former would have been easy, but very ineffectual ; the latter seemed very difficult, but, if accomplished, very effectual. I determined therefore to try the latter. " The first experiments were made by taking articles in common use, such as knives, forks, spoons, keys, &c., and pasting upon