The American Mechanic and Working-man, 第 1 卷

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W.S. Martien, 1847

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第 100 頁 - Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail! universal Lord ! be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
第 221 頁 - there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones ; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and little strokes fell great oaks.
第 171 頁 - We shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first ascent; but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
第 99 頁 - peeps over the eastern hills, thrusting out his golden horns, like those which decked the brow of Moses, when he was forced to wear a veil, because he himself had seen the face of God; and still, while a man tells the story, the sun gets higher and higher, till he shows
第 98 頁 - awaken men to labour or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught.
第 99 頁 - When the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by-and-by gilds the fringes of a
第 122 頁 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
第 173 頁 - of being able to follow, as it were, with our eyes, the marvellous works of the Great Architect of Nature—to trace the unbounded power and exquisite skill which are exhibited in the most minute, as well as the mightiest parts of his system. The pleasure derived from this study is unceasing, and so various,
第 75 頁 - Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do fail; and that should teach us There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
第 213 頁 - This boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, " What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts ?" " Sir," said the boy, " I would give what I have." Johnson was much pleased with his answer, and

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