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That process was - performed ; and the conclusion of the Judge was , that the presumption admitted to have been raised by this evidence , was overborne by the opposing proof : and because the Judge was constrained , in the conscientious discharge of his duty , to come to this conclusion , he is accused , by this author , of having assumed that the testimony in question afforded no inference , raised no presumption , in favor of the power claimed for the Lieutenant Governor . |
It is by little things that we know ourselves ; a soul would very probably mistake itself for another , when once disembodied , were it not for individual experiences which differ from those of others only in details seemingly trifling . |
E-cha-e-cha , e-herro -- echa-herro-echa-herro , ' was the war-whoop of the Occonies ; and it gathered them to a man around the sanguinary young chief who uttered it . |
And the worst of the whole was , he did nearly all this work in the name of religion ! |
They soon came back again , however , accompanying their uncle , and conducting him to the stone seat , where the children sat down to hear the letter . " |
I do n't wonder that he is a little mortified at my good fortune . |
This is so well understood , that we need not dwell much on this point . |
On the base of the monument is sculptured a lyre , and underneath it the following inscription , -- VIcT . |
pipes , containing hot and cold water , could ' be conveyed into all the private apartments , supplying each abundantly , and with baths in addition , if required . |
Mid these green haunts how many a spring lies gleaming , Fringed with the violet , colored by the skies ! |
" ' No , madam , I am not mad , ' she cried , in calmer tones ; ' I sometimes wish I were . |
k /z/ It passed over rivers , and valleys , and groves -- The world , it was all |
Its little heart , like a delicate vine , will throw out its tendrils for something to lean on -- something to cling to ; and so I can only say again , the sight of |
If I have ever lov 'd , If I do love -- if e'er I love hereafter Other of womankind , save thee , Rosina , May'st thou thyself at this foul lying heart Aim with a poisoned dagger ! |
I requested them to insert the roll at a particular place , and they inserted a wrong one . |
Gliding along in his dark habit , he was as much alone on |
But she knows it , sir -- that 's the misfortune . |
One of his fore-hoofs was thrust into the safe , where his bills receivable were hived , and the other into his pocket , among the loose change and bills there . |
said Susan , seizing , as eagerly as a drowning man catches at a straw , at Paulina 's single consoling recollection . " |
The Evidences of Christianity , in their External , or Historical Division . |
, whom God has gifted with the seeing eye and the cunning hand ; before whom nature outspreads her beauties , and is understood ; over whose souls the mighty mother breathes her inspiration , and they heave with the emotions of creative genius struggling on blindly , until some happy accident , some unforeseen event , leads them into their destined path , and a thousand forms of beauty , grace , and grandeur , descend to them and gather round them , to glow on the canvass , to live in the marble . |
" A word , men , " interposed Horse Shoe , who during this interval had planted himself near Butler , and with him stood ready to act as the emergency might require . " |
There was nothing remarkable in these appearances ; they were frequently to be met with on the road , and in the harvest field . |
Printed sentences of death will not kill us , " they said ; " and if the executioners approach us , they will be as likely to fall victims to death as we ; " for they had fully resolved , that , if any person should attempt to apprehend any of them or their friends , they would kill them on the spot . |
He had volunteered some two or three stories , of which he seemed , some how or other , to have lost the pith . |
Lucy Everett is now a prisoner of the Indians , perhaps , " -- and his voice sunk , " perhaps already their victim . |
" I 've got the stuff in my pocket , " said the Leech , " the gennewine sientifikals , what ' ll keep off the pest , and cure it |
There were two parlors now , " he said , " and with her handsome furniture they would look remarkably well . " |
I swear to you , then , that what you most dread shall never happen , that what you have almost ceased to hope , shall yet occur . |
There was a dressing-bureau of dark walnut , surmounted by |
-- ' ' Away with him , I say ! |
There was but one way of confirming it , viz. |
As it was , the Occonies drove their badge-carrier from one to the other end of their ranks , thus studiously avoiding the chance of another collision between the viper so adored , and the green bird so detested . |
Nor shall we easily be persuaded that the " powers that be " in Charleston , would fail |
" O it 's Mrs. Houghton 's , " -- I said . " |
But an event was now at hand which was calculated to divert the thoughts of Geraldine Foster into other channels . |
When their antlers are in velvet they then occasionally seek the sunny side of a hill , in the expressive language of the hunters , " to dry their horns . " |
' It gives you pain to see what time and money , what labour and toil are expended in plodding over an old dead letter , to learn languages , which exist no where only on paper , barely for the sake of reading the opinions of other men , in other times ; men who lived in other ages of the world , and under very different circumstances from ourselves , whose opinions ( all of which are worth preserving ) might be given in our own language , so as to answer every purpose , ' &c. ; -- But if these ' opinions ' should be given in our own language , there must be |
It is n't exactly a cambric needle , I grant you ; but then again , it 's nothing near like a bagging-needle . " |
Indeed , so great is the world 's poverty that a fair distribution would leave us each only enough to starve on , while industry , civilization , and education would all stand still together ; and as the little that each man had would soon be spent , and there would be no capital to furnish employment , the distress would be greater than it is now . |
He stood with folded arms , his eyes fixed upon May Edgerton , scarcely daring to glance at the stranger . |
There are three or more professorships of classical literature , established in each university . |
Even the earthly house of his tabernacle is dissolved ; that part of him which was all of which we were cognizant by |
While she was yet speaking , a snake glided slowly across her path . |
It 's illegal -- it 's actionable -- there are |
4 What proportion , Sir , of those who have been torn away from their home , are supposed to have died on the passage , or before their " seasoning " was over ? |
And now do not let your mind evade the question , whether they would not be right in the feeling , that they would not for all the world be in the condition of those who never think of religion but as the enemy of youthful happiness . |
She listened to her light footstep echoing through the hall |
One of the hearers of Mr. Mather , speaking of events which took place in Dorchester , soon after his settlement , says , " In those days |
There were those younger , those older , and those of the same age . |
Mrs. Crane 's , Fanny went directly to Julia , whom she found most becomingly dressed , and apparently anxiously awaiting her return . |
Their powers as artisans were very respectable , but no inducement could be brought to bear upon them ; as for working for a living , it was the last thing they thought of ; for some of them lived a year without tasting food , or seeming in the least exhausted by fasting . |
Unqualified and uncompromising hostility to bank notes and paper money as a circulating medium , because gold and silver is the only safe and constitutional currency . |
Dudley gave orders to fall off , leaving a boat 's crew to set fire to the prize , and leave her . |
The moment this was apparent , Mrs. Howland , who had lain as still as if locked in deep slumber , crept softly from the bed , and then , with a quick , eager motion , commenced putting on a wrapper . |
The little I have learned in relation to you has made me anxious to be numbered among your friends . |
Whether old man , or stout-armed Son of the forest , or round limbed woman , or dark haired child , all wore one look . |
It certainly was a material inadvertence , - for to this cause we ascribe the error , - to lay down any such propositions as generally true , in disregard of the striking facts recorded in so many pages of every historian of Harvard College , from Mather to Eliot . |
The luxuriance of a tropical imagination is tempered with a vein of gentle melancholy , and with a dash of that Epicurean philosophy which seeks in the joys of the present a relief from those gloomy forebodings which throw their dark shadows over the future . |
" remarked Marrast ; " and he manifests especial solicitude to show that he appreciates worth more highly than wealth -- genius than station . |
Her tiny hand , pure as wax , lay among the long , black locks of the Indian , and her |
In like manner all public facts are to be individualized , all private facts are to be generalized . |
We halted in a small and beautiful valley near Cockburn River , after having accomplished nine miles . |
She made your elegant trimming , and has just finished your dress for the night . |
" I will answer your question , " replied the lady , " protesting against the coercion exercised over me . |
As soon as they had departed , the dog made signs to his mistress to sweat him after the manner of the Indians . |
When we look for the record we find but little authority for a faith so confiding , and seemingly so exaggerated . |
From the moment of the adoption of that compact , at least , the sovereignty of the states must be admitted , as each expressly asserted its own , while it as clearly acknowledged the independence of others . |
the philosophers and learned men of antiquity have trimmed their midnight lamps to transmit to us instructions . |
A direct tax of half the amount for the support of government , would have produced a rebellion . |
Another lady , whose husband is a lawyer , divides the year into four quarters , and the income into four equal parts . |
its errand sped The messenger of vengeance : -- warm and red Gushed from a gaping wound the vital tide -- Wrenched was the granite from its ancient bed , And pines were broken , in their leafy pride , As throes of mortal pain the monster 's coil untied . |
indeed , to be expected , being that of the Sagamore himself . |
Having turned down a chair before the stove , the wanderer rested his back against it , sitting upon the floor . |
- - come into my room , it opens here upon the hall -- there is a comfortable lounge there -- come in and lie down -- let me get you something ? " |
The bulk of property left by her father is contained in two moderate-sized houses , one of which is at this time without a tenant . |
She was in America -- In America -- what was her name ? |
But if they could reach it , they might search the cave for a month , ere they found the outlet ; and if they did find it , which I think is not possible , they could not move that rock , from without , with all the engines human ingenuity has framed . |
I have sown the winds of intemperance and unbelief -- I am reaping the whirlwinds of unutterable monition . |
" Why , some'at so -- leastways till you strike a cl'aring |
In the bottom of this extraordinary pit-like crater , nothing was to be seen but a few pools , in which the blood-red lava was seen boiling and throwing out jets of liquid matter . |
It is wonderful to hear the sick , long before they die , give directions , or express desires , respecting their burial . |
that exploding beneath the very throne of empire , lays bare its mysterious foundations to the eye of the profane , covering the earth with the glittering fragments , of sceptres and chains , and crowns , and manacles , and leaving the royal banditti of the world , quaking and astounded , like men , over whose heads the blue sky has unexpectedly thundered , and reduced some of their party to ashes ! |
With that he came in ( ' t was a little dark , with the shawl pinned at the windy ) : -- Do n't go too near her face , for fear her breath 's infractious , ' sis I. I did n't bring a light , sir , ' sis I. |
/z/ All that remained to the kings was the decision of disputes between noble and noble , nobles and municipalities , municipality and municipality , and so on ; and even this jurisdiction was disputed these parties claiming the right to make private war on each other . |
Here was no debate between a sense of duty and an inclination to sin -- no disposition to question the wisdom or the goodness of the command -- no effort to devise expedients for the purpose of procuring delay -- and no unholy apprehensions respecting the possible or probable consequences of such a proceeding . |
He wrote it here , last night , ' answered Martin . |
Is little Velvet Cap riding away with your tongue as well as your heart ? |
You will read ily perceive , that her tale is told by her friend , but I hope you will not discover many or glaring proofs of a disposition to extenuate her errors or falsify her character . |
Martha Pray with this message sent he nought beside ? |
To reveal herself at once , and claim his protection , was her first hasty resolution ; but the next moment the conversation of her benefactress returned to her recollection . |
white person and one who is equally a human creature , but merely of a different complexion , is disgraceful to humanity , and degrading in the highest degree to the laws and principles of a free , Christian , and enlightened country , Be it enacted , &c., ; That if any person shall hereafter be guilty of wilfully and maliciously killing a slave , such offender shall , upon the first conviction thereof , be adjudged guilty of murder , and shall suffer the same punishment as if he had killed a free man : Provided always , this act shall not extend to the person killing a slave outlawed by virtue of any Act of Assembly of this state , or to any slave in the act of resistance to his lawful owner or master , or to any slave dying under moderate correction . " |
Let us trace the Ancestry of a single Great Man -- whom we select from the crowd of illustrious names -- back to its very fountain , in this dim Heraldry of the Past . |
Say I will repair to the Capitol , immediately . |
My hands arid my garments seem staiiied with the blood of my fellow-men . |
It was not her own blood that was upon her breast , but the blood of her mother and of her little sisters , to whom she had clung through the flame and under the sword . |
Being thus delivered from the mortal struggle in which he had borne himself so manfully , he had , although somewhat fatigued by his short but ferocious encounter , found no difficulty in dispatching the savage whom Rednape had wounded , and who had well nigh crept upon him , before he had completely vanquished his first antagonist . |
Having spoken of the design of this work , I proceed to state its plan . |
the last three days , resembled the monstrous creations of delirium . |
is there in all the world a phrase so sweet as this -- " My childhood 's home ? " |
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