The Heathcotes; or, The wept of Wish-Ton-WishRoutledge, 1855 - 273 Seiten |
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... never afterwards to offer any serious resistance to the whites , who have since converted the whole of their ancient hunting grounds into the abodes of civilized man . Metacom , Miantonimoh , and Conanchet , with their war- riors , have ...
... never afterwards to offer any serious resistance to the whites , who have since converted the whole of their ancient hunting grounds into the abodes of civilized man . Metacom , Miantonimoh , and Conanchet , with their war- riors , have ...
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... never forgot to close his instruction with a petition extraordinary , in the customary prayer , that no descendant of his should ever take life from a being unprepared to die , except in jus- tifiable defence of his faith , his person ...
... never forgot to close his instruction with a petition extraordinary , in the customary prayer , that no descendant of his should ever take life from a being unprepared to die , except in jus- tifiable defence of his faith , his person ...
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... never be idle from carelessness of mine , ' returned the confident boy ; " but counting and wishing cannot make seven and thirty fleeces where there are only six and thirty backs to carry them . I have been an hour among the briers and ...
... never be idle from carelessness of mine , ' returned the confident boy ; " but counting and wishing cannot make seven and thirty fleeces where there are only six and thirty backs to carry them . I have been an hour among the briers and ...
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... never ceased to watch his movements , from the instant when the other first came within view . Before speaking , the stranger , a man whose head was getting gray , apparently as much with hardship as with time , and one whose great ...
... never ceased to watch his movements , from the instant when the other first came within view . Before speaking , the stranger , a man whose head was getting gray , apparently as much with hardship as with time , and one whose great ...
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... never carry seven - and - thirty growing fleeces of unsheared wool . Master knows that , for he is a scholar , and can count a hundred ! " The allusion to the fate of the lost sheep was so plain as to admit of no misinterpretation of ...
... never carry seven - and - thirty growing fleeces of unsheared wool . Master knows that , for he is a scholar , and can count a hundred ! " The allusion to the fate of the lost sheep was so plain as to admit of no misinterpretation of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affections already answered appeared arms believed better buildings called captive character chief child colony companion Conanchet Content continued countenance covered danger dark deep distance door doubt Dudley duty dwelling ears earth Eben enemy entered equally evidence face Faith father fear feeling fields followed forest give given glance habits hand hath head heard heart Heathcote hope hour husband Indian interest known less light listened look manner Mark matter meaning mind moment mother movement Narragansett nature never night object observed party passed path person Puritan raised reason returned Ring Ruth savage scene seemed seen side signs sound speak spirit stood stranger suffering sufficient thee thou thou hast thought trees turned usual valley voice warrior watch whole woman woods young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 123 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o
Seite 216 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing...
Seite 70 - Flashy people may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people in a country, where they have as much mother- wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them.
Seite 181 - AND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord : and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Seite 185 - In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house : when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Seite 155 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Seite 206 - No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew : The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew.
Seite 185 - Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Seite 185 - But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the LORD : in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Seite 185 - ... the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.