Grace Darling: Or, The Heroine of the Fern Islands ; a TaleG. Henderson, 1839 - 158 pàgines |
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Pàgina 19 - Depart again: here, here will I remain With worms that are thy chambermaids; O! here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Pàgina viii - Written by himself, and containing the only authentic account of the murder; and the causes which induced it. To which is added, some poetical pieces written by Mrs. Ann Beauchamp, who voluntarily put an end to her existence, on the day of the execution of her husband, and was buried in the same grave with him.
Pàgina viii - The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp, who was Executed at Frankfort, Ky. on the 7th of July, 1826, for the Murder of Col. Solomon P. Sharp, a member of the Legislature and late Attorney General of Ky.
Pàgina 118 - He was a man of about forty years of age. with a ruddy complexion, and pleasing exterior.
Pàgina viii - Darling is a very fine military-looking old man, and his countenance indicates a high degree 'of warm-heartedness and energy of character. Grace does not belie her name ; for she is indeed a sweet girl, modest and unassuming, and appearing to be unconscious of having done anything great or noble.
Pàgina 90 - ... in so far as the rulers can be chosen from the people and the people have a right to choose their rulers' (quoted by Tierney, Religion, Law and Thought, p.
Pàgina v - THE public annals of history, as well as the private records of domestic life, can boast of but few instances of female heroism in England ; whereas France, and some other continental nations, have produced from time to time many illustrious examples of woman's magnanimity.
Pàgina vi - Next to the demoralizing idea that white men have a right to enslave the blacks, the belief which the English entertain relative k to the necessity of the un -importance of woman is the most unjust and unfounded.
Pàgina 94 - London, she thus warbled one of those patriotic songs which her venerable sire loved so much to hear. THE RED-CROSS OF ALBION.