History of Connecticut in Monographic Form, Volumen2

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Norris Galpin Osborn
States history Company, 1925

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Página 496 - tis no deadly sin: — Like the free Frenchman, from your joyous chin Suspend the ready napkin; or, like me, Poise with one hand your bowl upon your knee; Just in the zenith your wise head project, Your full spoon, rising in a line direct, Bold as a bucket, heed no drops that fall, The wide-mouthed bowl will surely catch them all!
Página 447 - The fund, called the SCHOOL FUND, shall remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated to the support and encouragement of the public, or common schools throughout the state, and for the equal benefit of all the people thereo.f. The value and amount of said fund shall, as soon as practicable, be ascertained in such manner as the General Assembly may prescribe, published, and recorded in the...
Página 528 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Página 528 - The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own...
Página 447 - ... the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New England, in America; and that, by the same name, they and their successors should have perpetual succession.
Página 509 - Here lies a fool flat on his back, The victim of a cancer quack ; Who lost his money and his life, By plaster, caustic, and by knife. The case was this — a pimple rose South-east a little of his nose ; Which daily reddened and grew bigger, As too much drinking gave it vigor...
Página 476 - State, or to his duly authorized agents, the costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred by such State for enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting its troops employed in aiding to suppress the present insurrection against the United States, to be settled upon proper vouchers to be filed and passed upon by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury.
Página 448 - Bay, where the said river falleth into the sea; and on the north by the line of the Massachusetts plantation; and on the south by the sea; and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts...
Página 505 - History, as yet, has left in the United States but so thin and impalpable a deposit that we very soon touch the hard substratum of nature ; and nature herself, in the Western World, has the peculiarity of seeming rather crude and immature. The very air looks new and young ; the light of the sun seems fresh and innocent...
Página 528 - From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air.

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