The Ladies of the White HouseUnited States Publishing Company, 1870 - 658 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 54
... passed out , who urged him to do something for it , " No , you know I never take any thing for a cold . Let it go as it came . " The winds and rains of sixty - eight years have beaten upon that sacred home on the high banks of the ...
... passed out , who urged him to do something for it , " No , you know I never take any thing for a cold . Let it go as it came . " The winds and rains of sixty - eight years have beaten upon that sacred home on the high banks of the ...
الصفحة 60
... passed in the quiet seclusion of her grandfather's house ; and under the instructions of her grandmother , she imbibed most of the lessons which were the most deeply impressed upon her mind . " I have not forgotten , " she says in a ...
... passed in the quiet seclusion of her grandfather's house ; and under the instructions of her grandmother , she imbibed most of the lessons which were the most deeply impressed upon her mind . " I have not forgotten , " she says in a ...
الصفحة 64
... passed an apparently very happy life , having her residence in Braintree , or in Boston , according as the state of her husband's health , then rather impaired , or that of his professional practice , made the change advisable . Within ...
... passed an apparently very happy life , having her residence in Braintree , or in Boston , according as the state of her husband's health , then rather impaired , or that of his professional practice , made the change advisable . Within ...
الصفحة 69
... passed , and Mrs. Adams writes to him , " I have never received a syllable from you or my dear son , and it is five months since I had an oppor- tunity of conveying a line to you . ** Yet I know not but you are less a sufferer than you ...
... passed , and Mrs. Adams writes to him , " I have never received a syllable from you or my dear son , and it is five months since I had an oppor- tunity of conveying a line to you . ** Yet I know not but you are less a sufferer than you ...
الصفحة 75
... passed , and when the warm spring days came , the self - reliant wife was ready for her journey . Business all arranged ; her sons with relatives ; house closed , and she with her daughter ready to bid adieu to the many friends who ...
... passed , and when the warm spring days came , the self - reliant wife was ready for her journey . Business all arranged ; her sons with relatives ; house closed , and she with her daughter ready to bid adieu to the many friends who ...
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الصفحة 19 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
الصفحة 13 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
الصفحة 322 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
الصفحة 92 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
الصفحة 33 - I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be ; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances..
الصفحة 19 - I shall feel no pain from the toil or the danger of the campaign ; my unhappiness will flow from the uneasiness I know you will feel from being left alone. I therefore beg that you will summon your whole fortitude, and pass your time as agreeably as possible. Nothing will give me so much sincere satisfaction as to hear this, and to hear it from your own pen.
الصفحة 19 - You might, and I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letter, that I was apprehensive I could not avoid this appointment, as I did not pretend to intimate when I should return. That was the case. It was utterly out -of my power to refuse this appointment, without exposing my character to such censures as would have reflected dishonor upon myself, and given pain to my friends.
الصفحة 375 - JUST as I am, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come.
الصفحة 143 - IT is not the tear at this moment shed, When the cold turf has just been laid o'er him, That can tell how beloved was the friend that's fled, Or how deep in our hearts we deplore him.
الصفحة 41 - Tis well,' said she in the same voice. ' All is now over ; I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through.