History of Hanover Academy

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H.M. Hight, Printer, 1899 - 221 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 205 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Σελίδα 93 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Σελίδα 9 - God. 2 Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown, Hang on His firm decree; He sits on no precarious throne, Nor borrows leave, TO BE. 3 Chained to His throne a volume lies, With all the fates of men; With every angel's form and size, Drawn by th
Σελίδα 19 - ... to was this: the inhabitants of the city on a certain day collected together and marched in procession, dividing themselves into three companies, the old, the middleaged, and the young. When assembled for the sports and exercises, a dramatic scene was introduced, and the three parties had each a speaker ; and Plutarch gives the form of phraseology used in the several addresses on the occasion. The old men speak first; and, addressing those beneath them in age, they say, ' We have been, in days...
Σελίδα 54 - CD, his heirs and assigns as aforesaid ; and that I will, and my heirs, executors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the said CD, his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
Σελίδα 54 - Fairface, his heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore granted premises. That they are free of all incumbrances : That I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Elvin Fairface.
Σελίδα 19 - Sparta, which now occurred to him, and which filled his mind with this pleasing idea, viz. that these endeavours of ours, for the fit education of all our children, would be the means of raising up a generation around us which would be superior to ourselves. The usage alluded to was this : the inhabitants of the city on a certain day collected together, and marched in procession, dividing themselves into three companies — the old, the middle-aged, and the young. When assembled for the sports and...
Σελίδα 53 - CD, of , in the county of , merchant, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, and convey, unto the said CD, his heirs and assigns forever...
Σελίδα 5 - History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it ; and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as truth is concerned : notwithstanding which, there are those, who compose books, and toss them out into the world like fritters. There are few books so bad, said the bachelor, but there is something good in them. There is no doubt of that...
Σελίδα 6 - Christian •}• as I am, I had rung him such a peal, that the deaf should have heard me."— " That were a miracle," said Carrasco.—" Miracle me no miracles," cried Sancho; "let every man take care how he talks, or how he writes of other men, and not set down at random, higgle-de-piggledy, whatever comes into his noddle.

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