The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volumen13

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Machlachlan, Stewart & Company, 1840
 

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Página 87 - Oh thwart me not, Sir Soph, at every turn, Nor carp at every flaw you may discern; Though syllogisms hang not on my tongue, I am not surely always in the wrong; 'T is hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Página 258 - Farewell, my nation! Black Hawk tried to save you, and avenge your wrongs. He drank the blood of some of the whites. He has been taken prisoner, and his plans are stopped ; he can do no more. He is near his end ; his sun is setting, and he will rise no more. Farewell to Black Hawk
Página 256 - A good spirit had care of it (Block Island), who lived in a cave in the rocks immediately under the place where the fort now stands, and has often been seen by our people. He was white, with large wings like a swan's, only ten times larger. We were particular not to make a
Página 258 - I fought hard — but your guns were well aimed ; the bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter. My warriors fell around me : it began to
Página 233 - sent a letter to the following purport; —' Rev. Sir, — I beg pardon for innocently amusing myself at your expense, but you need not give yourself any uneasiness. I knew better than you could do, the extent of the sale of single sermons, and accordingly printed but one hundred copies, to the expense of which you are heartily welcome.'
Página 46 - My blood begins my safer guides to rule; Assays to lead the way. If I once stir, Or do but lift this arm, the best of you Shall sink in my rebuke.
Página 233 - proposals, and required to know how many copies he would choose to have struck off. ' Why, sir,' returned the clergyman, ' I have calculated that there are in the kingdom ten thousand parishes, and that each parish will at least take one, and others more; so that I think we may venture to print about thirty-five or thirty-six thousand copies.
Página 257 - They may do bad all their lives, and then, if they are sorry for it, when they die, all is well. But with us it is different: we must continue throughout our lives to do what we conceive to be good." Conscientiousness moderate might have dictated
Página 233 - Rivington, desiring him to send the debtor and creditor account, most liberally permitting the remittances to be forwarded at Mr. R.'s convenience. Judge of the astonishment, tribulation, and anguish, excited by the receipt of the following account: — The Rev. Dr. * * * * To C. Rivington, Dr. To printing and paper, 35,000 copies of
Página 256 - was in great sorrow." And after a victorious battle he says, " I lighted my pipe, and sat down to thank the Great Spirit." He closes his narrative thus: — "I am now done, a few more moons, and I must follow my fathers to the shades. May the Great Spirit keep our people and the whites always in peace.

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