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Lille - Page 381
But Lila sat at her feet, or walked at her side, satisfied with her smile ; or she hid her rosy face in the snow-white fleece of her lamb, ...
more pages: 373
Galway - Page 344
Our last days in Ireland were spent in Dublin, and I am heartily glad that my impressions of Galway were not my strongest and latest. ...
Whittier - Page 463
forth its radiance like a real New England country fire of the olden time, so happily described by Whittier : " The oaken log, green, huge and thick. ...
more pages: 166
Boston - Page 187
In the address of Ralph Waldo Emerson to the Public School children at the Music Hall Festival in Boston last year, he said, " I hope you read good ...
more pages: 353
Dublin - Page 344
Our last days in Ireland were spent in Dublin, and I am heartily glad that my impressions of Galway were not my strongest and latest. ...
Rome - Page 221
gay streets of Paris or Rome, or listened to in some region where a child's cradle is fastened to swinging branches, and rocked by the lulling breeze. ...
more pages: 450
Plymouth - Page 459
Before churches were established in all the towns about Plymouth, it often became necessary to travel six or eight miles in order to attend meeting, ...
Paris - Page 221
It is substantially the same story as if told in a peasant's hut on the Pyrenees, or recited by some wandering mendicant in the gay streets of Paris ...
more pages: 20
Berlin - Page 249
I have now and then dipped a little into jurisprudence in Berlin and Bonn, have also made two campaigns, and withal, there is my good nobility ...
more pages: 27
New York - Page 356
When peace was declared he left the army and emba ked for Spain, where he intended to establish business in connection with a firm in New York. ...
more pages: 452
Venice - Page 401
The approach to Venice by rail is along a causeway, with intervals of tressle-work, some two miles in length, across the morass, from what may be ...
London - Page 300
Among the ships that anchored in London that day, there was one that had made a prosperous voyage and brought many a glad hearted sailor to his wife ...
more pages: 211
Padua - Page 401
Goethe sojourned for a time at Padua, and studied and wrote of the palm trees which here form a stately and novel feature in the landscape. ...
Jerusalem - Page 192
With the latter God dwells not especially in Jerusalem, nor in Mt. Gerazim ; he is a universal spirit, to be worshipped in spirit and in truth, ...
more pages: 390
Cologne - Page 245
ed at Cologne, the other a small octavo. Both were widely circulated and speedily reached England. There they were proscribed and publicly burnt ...
Albany - Page 356
From Albany he went to New York city, where he finished his school education. As a student he was diligent and conscientious, always doing his work ...
Windsor - Page 250
Windsor, " fifty pounds to the poor house- feet long and fifty feet wide, where the keepers of New Windsor," and made other younger members of the ...
Belfast - Page 400
The effect of the Tyndall and Huxley papers read at Belfast, continue to echo down the month. Dr. Watts, of the Presbyterian College in that city, ...
Edinburgh - Page 302
This settled he spent a whole morning trying to find Hudson, who when he was found, told Philip that the Lindsays had gone to Edinburgh from their old ...
Vienna - Page 396
Hale thinks it not unkind to call this a performance, a mere spectacle : for he could find no one in Vienna who could tell him just what it meant, ...
Elizabeth, In - Page 53
Elizabeth, In awe at this great name, still mutely gazed In the king's face, while over all her own Gathered the light of slowly dawning trust,
Brussels - Page 400
The Seventh Congress of the International met at Brussels on the 8th ultimo. The Italians and Spaniards, though few in numbers, showed the most ...
Newport - Page 31
of amusement rode out from Portland, and Saco sent its lovers to drive upon the moonlit sands of Old Orchard ; yet, while the beauties of Newport,. ...
Liverpool - Page 285
Raynor & Walling," whose trade with Liverpool, with China, was so great, and a place in whose office was so eagerly sought. ...
Cracow - Page 289
solitude to a man whose years had been passed in the society of the great and the learned, amidst the bustle of splendid capitals like Cracow or Rome. ...
Florence - Page 401
in the history or literature of Italy, are ranged around an open square or promenade, as in the celebrated portico of the Uffizzio palace at Florence. ...
Athens - Page 82
A score of years to Athens came and went. A score of years had Callaon's will been bent To find and follow the supremest good, And make the world's ...
Emmaus - Page 244
Did we not feel encouraged, and did not our hearts burn within us, as with the disciples on the way to Emmaus ? Did not those dark Scriptures suddenly ...
Bonn - Page 249
I have now and then dipped a little into jurisprudence in Berlin and Bonn, have also made two campaigns, and withal, there is my good nobility ...
Cranston - Page 303
father had the immeasurable privilege of being born in Cranston, which seemed to me, with all my reverence for antiquity, to be an event for which to.
San Francisco - Page 298
Philip Owen, bade his sweet wife good-by and sailed for San Francisco. He had left England reluctantly, for it was very hard to part with Margaret, ...
York, Maine - Page 355
York,. Maine. [This was the first incorporated city of America. In 1640 Sir Ferdinand Georges gave it a charter, appointed a Mayor and Aldermen, ...
Baltimore - Page 386
In Philadelphia and Baltimore, fifty in every hundred of the mothers who are sitting to-day by cradles in their happy homes, will ere long go out to ...
Erfurt - Page 429
Melanchton begged him to consult the physicians of Erfurt, and sent him medicines, adding that daily active exercise was indispensable to his recovery ...
Bristol - Page 26
At least he became intimate with many persons of repute in Bristol; who appear, however, to have cared more for his old manuscripts than they did for ...
Philadelphia - Page 386
In Philadelphia and Baltimore, fifty in every hundred of the mothers who are sitting to-day by cradles in their happy homes, will ere long go out to ...
Madrid - Page 113
Some members of a French embassy, that about this time came to Madrid upon important political business,were one day conversing with certain Spanish ...
Quebec - Page 358
Another sail ! and the brig " Triton " of Cardiganshire, bound for Quebec, answered our signals, and drawing near, spoke us. ...
Gibraltar - Page 212
She started on her travels in 1810, went to Gibraltar and remained there for some time, and then pursued her journey to the East. ...
Gloucester - Page 231
Returning at nightfall we meet, half-way down, the steamer for Gloucester, that another day we may take in the morning and experience a real ...
Columbia, SC - Page 224
But from thence he was sent to the prison-pen at Columbia, SC, where he dragged out long months in the open field, without a plank to shelter him from ...
Newton, Mass - Page 356
Greenwood, the youngest son of Miles and Charity Greenwood, was born in Newton, Mass., May 2, .1799. His childhood and early youth were passed at that ...
Cambridge - Page 319
Courses of lectures on the history of art have been delivered, both at the Lowell Institute and at Cambridge: at the latter place a department of ...
Haarlem - Page 460
In a park in Haarlem we saw a tall pole, painted white, surmounted by a mysterious mass of sticks and straw. This proved to be a stork's nest, ...
Amsterdam - Page 459
that one finds it difficult to realize that by wrong management or carelessness of sluices and dykes, Amsterdam might be drowned at any moment. ...
Meadville - Page 5
During all this time he carried on a course of theological reading under direction of a professor at Meadville. As a hint of the spirit of these years ...
Syracuse - Page 5
He, in turn, felt hopeful of improvement so soon as he could exchange the latitude of Syracuse for another. He therefore came to Newark with reviving ...
Moscow - Page 406
I entered upon the journey from Moscow to Warsaw with a sort of dread. The distance is thirteen hundred versts. The trip occupies two days and nights ...
Munich - Page 21
leave untasted the wild grandeur of life on the Hartz Mountains ; put resolutely behind you the magnificence of Munich, the fascinations of Vienna ...
Brooklyn - Page 4
Church would make a combination strong enough to build a suitable edifice, and otherwise provide the difficult conditions of success in Brooklyn. ...
Chicago - Page 69
sighs Chicago, with rather homesick memories of the traditions of the elders. u'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view "
Portsmouth - Page 6
He sent his resignation to Girard, and his acceptance to Portsmouth. Learning more freely the feeling of his people by their distress at the prospect ...
Naples - Page 222
At the mountain's base and along the shore the railroad goes to Naples a few miles away, and the city rises like a cone from the curving beach, ...
Oxford - Page 2
It must have been during his ministry at Oxford that he was ordained ; but I find no mention of the service in either the Freeman or the Trumpet, ...
Springfield, Pennsylvania - Page 7
It transpires that the degree of DD, is the gift of an unsectarian institution at Springfield, Pennsylvania, which has frequently used its college ...
Portsmouth, NH - Page 6
While here, he was invited to preach at Portsmouth, NH, and did so, without knowing they were seeking a pastor. An invitation from the parish followed ...
Canton, NY - Page 78
Esq., of Buffalo, to the Theological School at Canton, NY, which generous sum helps that noble institution, as its President says, "out of the woods. ...
Warsaw - Page 406
I entered upon the journey from Moscow to Warsaw with a sort of dread. The distance is thirteen hundred versts. The trip occupies two days and nights ...
Mainz - Page 133
remarked by the judge in a case reported in the princedom of Mainz,) was necessary on account of " their diminutive size and their not being of age. ...
Seville - Page 112
Turning his back upon Madrid and the miseries of unsuccessful authorship, he went to Seville, where he engaged in business pursuits, of what character ...
Saint John's - Page 21
And you at once call him Saint John's double, in your heart, and will call him nothing else until the end of time, no matter how positively I may ...
Algiers - Page 110
A ransomed prisoner by the name of Viana, had promised that on arriving home he would secure a vessel and return to Algiers. ...
Cincinnati - Page 156
has been expended in the support of fifty women in foreign fields of labor, and in the building of a " Home " for charitable purposes at Cincinnati. ...
Lisbon - Page 235
after the invention of printing, and a rare set, of which nearly the whole edition perished in the fire following the great earthquake at Lisbon. ...
Valencia - Page 118
last days were spent, until one edition after another of the great novel had been published at Madrid, at Valencia, at Barcelona, Brussels and Lisbon. ...
Princeton - Page 75
The day of authority is surely waning, when Princeton students can snap their fingers at a bull of excommunication issued by their alma mater. ...
Woodstock, Vt - Page 157
Woodstock, Vt., meet our eye. What a happily long sentence it makes to enumerate our denominational.
Slough - Page 251
From Eton we go north two miles to Slough, where is the house occupied by Herschel, the great astronomer, in which he made his valuable discoveries ...
Cartagena - Page 160
Almost simultaneously, a victory is won over the rebels at Cartagena, for which Serrano will have the laurels, although the honor of having prepared ...
York - Page 138
York. THE note of preparation for the holidays was already sounding when I returned to Gotham in this last, sad, gray November ; the November of the ...
Auburn, NY - Page 4
Before the parish had quite made up their minds what to do, a prompt invitation from the church in Auburn, NY, was accepted, and a new field of labor ...
New Haven - Page 312
Quite in contrast with this bulky and somewhat obscure treatise, is a little volume of a hundred pages * emanating anonymously from New Haven, ...
Dover - Page 358
During his ministry in Dover, and prior to his settlement there, Mr. Greenwood received many flattering calls from flourishing city parishes. ...
Carand - Page 39
A small cabinet interior, by Carand, entitled " yeune fille portant un chat," shows a young woman caressing a soft, flossy kitten, which she holds in ...
Lausanne - Page 132
A bishop of Lausanne pronounced it against leeches which especially disturbed the river Salme. A priest placed under the ban, the eels in Lake Geneva, ...
Bologna - Page 287
At Bologna, one of the most renowned astronomers of the century admitted him into his intimacy ; made him the companion of his own studies ...
Copenhagen - Page 156
The photographs are about eight hundred in number, and include duplicates of the Thorwaldsen collection at Copenhagen, many treasures from Venice and ...
Akron - Page 389
What has been done in Xenia and Akron, can be done anywhere with the same means. Two hundred women could do nothing in Boston, but forty thousand ...
Newark, NJ - Page 5
The parish in Newark, NJ, having decided to make a strong effort to rise above obstacles that had for some time impeded their progress, ...
Cairo - Page 239
Since then she has travelled for health and pleasure, singing at Cairo with great eclat, and at the time of her death interesting herself in the opea ...
Santo Domingo - Page 222
It is of solid mahogany, and originally belonged to one ot the churches of Santo Domingo ; not the church, however, where the bones of Columbus were ...
Roxbury, Mass - Page 3
when the parish in Roxbury, Mass., hearing of his promise, and desiring to balance the account with the West for carrying Dr. ...
Charleston - Page 223
They took him to Charleston in a few weeks, and placed him, with a large numher.
Lynchburg - Page 223
He was a prisoner, and stated that he had seen Lieutenant Nealy on the loth of May, at Lynchburg. He was wounded, and a prisoner, but was well and ...
Northumberland, Pennsylvania - Page 239
It strikes one curiously that the centennial of the discovery of oxygen shouU- be celebrated at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, until he learns or ...
Hamburg - Page 270
Aunt Judith wants me to ask you to send her ten yards of Hamburg trimming, she sees by the papers you send, that it is selling quite cheap. ...
Waterloo - Page 247
It contains portraits of Wellington, the hero of Waterloo, and his associates in the great victory, Anglesey, Hill, Blucher. and other martial heroes, ...
Macon, Georgia - Page 223
Two weeks later, and almost three months after the battle, I received a letter from his own dear hand, dated " Macon, Georgia," and saying that he was ...
Granada - Page 159
Among really great pictures of this class is Clarin's scene of an Execution in Granada, similar to the famous picture of Regnault's, ...
Louisville - Page 275
Taking the steamer at Cincinnati, we had a most agreeable night-ride down the Ohio to Louisville, where, at six in the morning we found ourselves "all ...
Harwich - Page 457
We reached Holland's shores at eight o'clock in the morning, having crossed from Harwich to Rotterdam, and, coming on deck to land, we found ourselves ...
Grenoble - Page 132
Julien, when worms destroyed the vineyards, and in Grenoble, when the country suffered from caterpillars and snails. ...
Cleveland - Page 5
Before he had begun preaching, I have heard him speak of riding through the finest street of Cleveland with a relative, who was urging him, ...
Damascus - Page 69
Paul saw Jesus on the way to Damascus and " was not disobedient to the heavenly vision." John saw the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven. ...
Pittsburgh - Page 240
The helplessness of man before Nature is again illustrated in the flood at Pittsburgh. A sudden, fearful storm overflows rivers, floods valleys, ...
Berkeley - Page 123
Better believe with Berkeley that a stone is an idea, than with Cabanis that "thought is a secretion of the brain. ...
Detroit - Page 317
The session just held in Detroit was prolific of important and able papers, but none of such importance as the plea for vinsectarian Universities, ...
Lope de Vega - Page 117
For even Lope de Vega does not presume to defend these romances as literary productions. He admits that there is something even ludicrous in their ...
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Hong Kong - Page 373
She treated him very badly, and banished him to Hong Kong, or something of that sort, wasn't it?" " Not at all ! A regular Montague and Capulet ...
Wellington - Page 247
In the former are busts of Marlboro, Nelson, and Wellington, with field pieces taken in the Sikh war of India, a banner from Blenheim, one hundred and ...

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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.Page 134
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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius ; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.Page 187
I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.Page 167
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