Manors of Virginia in Colonial Times

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J.B. Lippincott, 1909 - 309 頁
 

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第 164 頁 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — (" Treason," cried the Speaker — " treason, treason ", echoed from every part of the House.
第 194 頁 - BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
第 226 頁 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
第 220 頁 - And our own dear Monticello; where has nature spread so rich a mantle under the eye? mountains, forests, rocks, rivers. With what majesty do we there ride above the storms! How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! and the glorious sun, when rising as if out of a distant water, just gilding the tops of the mountains, and giving life to all nature!
第 180 頁 - Last night, as merry as agreeable company and dancing with Belinda in the Apollo could make me, I never could have thought the succeeding sun would have seen me so wretched as I now am...
第 72 頁 - There is yet another kind of Sport, which the young People take great Delight in, and that is, the Hunting of wild Horses; which they pursue sometimes with Dogs, and sometimes without. You must know they have many Horses foaled in the Woods of the Uplands, that never were in hand, and are as shy as any Savage Creature.
第 87 頁 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
第 21 頁 - Possessed of ample wealth, blamelessly acquired, he built and endowed, at his own expense, this sacred edifice — a signal monument of his piety toward God. He furnished it richly. " Entertaining his friends kindly, he was neither a prodigal nor a parsimonious host.
第 251 頁 - ... adjunct, which, I am sorry to say, has become too common among us, not only in newspaper annunciations, but in the addressing of letters, and even in familiar discourse. It is a practice disagreeable to my feelings and inconsistent, as I think, with the dignified simplicity of freemen and to the nature of the vocation of those to whom it is applied. And having made it a rule through life to address no one as his Excellency or the honorable, or by any such unmeaning title, I trust I shall be pardoned...
第 119 頁 - God is love,' is in the volume of revelation — what a dreary desolate place would be a world without a flower ! it would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not stars the flowers of heaven ? one cannot look closely at the structure of a flower without loving it.

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