My Mother's Journal: A Young Lady's Diary of Five Years Spent in Manila, Macao, and the Cape of Good Hope from 1829-1834 |
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My Mother's Journal; A Young Lady's Diary of Five Years Spent in Manila ... Katharine Hillard,Harriet Low Hillard No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 196 - And how and why we know not, nor can trace Home to its cloud this lightning of the mind...
Page 3 - Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
Page 12 - Oh! I shall not forget, until memory depart, When first I beheld it, the glow of my heart; The wonder, the awe, the delight that stole o'er me, When its billowy boundlessness...
Page 173 - When I remember all' The friends so linked together I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 174 - To be resigned, when ills betide, Patient, when favors are denied, And pleased with favors given *, This is the wise, the virtuous part : This is that incense of the heart, Whose fragrance reaches heaven.
Page 58 - There is' a voiceless eloquence on Earth, Telling of Him who gave her wonders birth ; And long may I remain the adoring child Of nature's majesty, sublime or wild ; Hill, flood, and forest, mountain, rock, and sea, All take their terrors and their charms from Thee, From Thee, whose hidden but supreme control Moves through the world, a universal soul.
Page 195 - O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us...
Page 28 - Macao from the sea looks beautiful, with some most romantic spots. We arrived there about ten o'clock, took sedan chairs and went to our house, which we liked the looks of very much. The streets of Macao are narrow and irregular, but we have a garden in which I anticipate much pleasure. In fact, there are two, one above the other. All the paths are of flat stones, and are as smooth as a floor. You ascend five flights of steps and come to an observatory, from which we have a fine view of the bay and...
Page 61 - Saw one of the Company's ships with the sun shining on her well-filled sails. How I wished for Mr. Chinnery's talent for painting that I might sketch for you the beautiful scene before me, the large and handsome Church, milk-white, with a splendid flight of stone steps. . . . Just beyond, the port, stretching into the bay. Beyond this again you can see the roads, and the little boats skimming over the surface.
Page 265 - Darwin died of a heart attack in 1882, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton.