The Life of Henry Bradley Plant

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G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 - 344 頁
Biographical account of the life of Henry B. Plant.
 

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第 265 頁 - ... water at the lowest tides. Some of the sounds upon the coast of North Carolina, which have been navigable within the memory of living sea-captains, are now impassable bars or emerging sand-flats. Along the coast of New Jersey the sea has encroached, within sixty years, upon the sites of former habitations, and entire forests have been prostrated by the inundation. In the harbor of Nantucket the upright stumps of trees are found eight feet below the lowest tide, with their roots still buried in...
第 97 頁 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
第 38 頁 - That hallowed touch was ne'er forgot ! And now, though time hath set His frosty seal upon my lot, These temples feel it yet. And if I e'er in heaven appear, A mother's holy prayer, A mother's hand, and gentle tear, That pointed to a Saviour dear, Have led the wanderer there.
第 25 頁 - Found a College in the Colony of Connecticut ; which they did at their next Meeting at Branford, in the following Manner, viz. Each Member brought a Number of Books and presented them to the Body ; and laying them on the Table, said these Words, or to this Effect ; "I give these Books for the founding a College in this Colony.
第 281 頁 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
第 37 頁 - And taught my faltering tongue. She, when the nightly couch was spread, Would bow my infant knee, And place her hand upon my head, And, kneeling, pray for me. But then there came a fearful day ; I sought my mother's bed, Till harsh hands tore me thence away, And told me she was dead.
第 290 頁 - Two or three rough plank were strowed around the room : a heap of filthy straw, like the nest of swine, was in the corner.
第 25 頁 - Haven some time in the year 1700, and formed themselves into a society, to consist of eleven ministers, including a rector, and agreed to found a college in the colony of Connecticut. At a...
第 166 頁 - He is a member of the Union League Club and of the...
第 263 頁 - There is a Divinity that shapes our ends rough hew them as we may.

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