Supplement to the Cyclopædia of American Literature: Including Obituaries of Authors, Continuations of Former Articles, with Notices of Earlier and Later Writers Omitted in Previous EditionsC. Scribner and Company, 1866 - 162 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 137 - AND WHEREAS laws inconsistent with the spirit of this constitution or with the public good, may be hastily and unadvisedly passed: Be it Ordained, That the Governor for the time being, the Chancellor, and the Judges of the Supreme Court, or any two of them, together with the Governor...
الصفحة 120 - Glance their many-twinkling feet. •Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay; With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way; O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
الصفحة 46 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
الصفحة 132 - ... interfere with the spontaneous arrangements of the organic or the inorganic world ; to suggest the possibility and the importance of the restoration of disturbed harmonies, and the material improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and, incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life, which, like him, are nourished at the table of bounteous nature.
الصفحة 151 - Tomes (Robert). The War with the South. A History of the Great American Rebellion, with Biographical Sketches of leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders, etc.
الصفحة 132 - THE HALLIG; OR, THE SHEEPFOLD IN THE WATERS. A Tale of Humble Life on the Coast of Schleswig.
الصفحة 59 - To this work, so much needed, should my life and health be spared, I hope speedily to address myself.
الصفحة 117 - Its harvest for the tented field. Ha ! feel ye not your fingers thrill, As o'er them, in the yellow grains, Glide the warm drops of blood that fill, For mortal strife, the warrior's veins ; « Such as, on Solferino's day, Slaked the brown sand and flowed away — Flowed till the herds, on Mincio's brink, Snuffed the red stream and feared to drink ; — Blood that in deeper pools shall lie...
الصفحة 151 - Congregationalism: What it is, Whence it is, How it Works, Why it is better than any other Form of Church Government, and its Consequent Demands " (1865 ; 5th ed., 1879) ; " The Verdict of Reason upon the Future Punishment of those who Die Impenitent" TOI
الصفحة 110 - A Declaration of remarkable Providences in the Course of my Life. By John Dane, of Ipswich. 1682.