The Refugee: A Romance, Volume 1Wilder & Campbell, 1825 - United States |
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Page 39 - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice : but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Page 114 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God : and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Page 112 - Destroy thou them, O God ; let them fall by their own counsels ; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions ; for they have rebelled against thee.
Page 39 - Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.
Page 44 - Gil," he says — (we quote him here, for his familiar words, not for his poetry) — "Master Gil was a healthy urchin of four, as noisy as sin, and as brown as a berry. You might hear him of (on) a clear afternoon, the distance of half a mile, hallooing to the birds, as they winged their way to the mountains, for their evening nap. He was known by every person for ten miles around, as he seldom suffered a wellconditioned nag to pass, without an attempt to purchase him; and, where the housings and...
Page 44 - Is that poetry, or is it not? His portrait of Washington is admirable, for truth; and so, indeed, are the greater part of his brief sketches. Try him on another tack. "Master Gil," he says — (we quote him here, for his familiar words, not for his poetry) — "Master Gil was a healthy urchin of four, as noisy as sin, and as brown as a berry. You might hear him of (on) a clear afternoon, the distance of half a mile, hallooing to the birds, as they winged their way to the mountains, for their evening...
Page 280 - ... &c. Is that poetry, or is it not ? His portrait of Washington is admirable, for truth; and so, indeed, are the greater part of his brief sketches. Try Him on another tack.
Page 76 - Resolves were passed, not the less dangerous to the royal cause because emanating from plebeian breasts.
Page 78 - England, and as such, as well as by diocesan orders, bound to pray for his said majesty, the head of the true church^ and having neglected so to do, otherwise than by irreverently naming his sovereign in a petition to the Throne of Grace for the restoration of sundry civil rights...
Page 74 - Virginia line, were so conspicuous, that the fulers of Britain thought it necessary to adopt measures which should delay, if not prevent, our approach to a dangerous degree of strength grandeur.