Alida: Or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact. With PoemsAuthor, 1841 - 244 pages |
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Page 239 - To prayer, to prayer ; — for the morning breaks, And earth in her Maker's smile awakes. His light is on all below and above, The light of gladness, and life, and love. O, then, on the breath of this early air, Send upward the incense of grateful prayer.
Page 239 - To prayer ; — for the glorious sun is gone, And the gathering darkness of night comes on ; Like a curtain from God's kind hand it flows To shade the couch where his children repose. Then kneel, while the watching stars are bright, And give your last thoughts to the Guardian of night.
Page 25 - The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven. Meantime a smiling offspring rises round, And mingles both their graces. By degrees, The human blossom blows; and every day, Soft as it rolls along, shows some new charm, The father's lustre and the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care.
Page 32 - ... arose both with France and England, especially with the latter, who saw in America a formidable rival. These disputes finally impelled the states to have recourse to the unexampled resolution of a voluntary suspension of their own commerce. On the 22d of December, 1807, Congress passed an act laying an embargo on all vessels within the jurisdiction of the United States. This was followed, March 1st, 1808, by an act interdicting commercial intercourse with France and Great Britain.
Page 143 - Resolved, That it be and hereby is recommended to the said legislatures, to authorize an immediate, and earnest application to be made to the government of the United States, requesting their consent to some arrangement whereby the said states may, separately or in concert, be empowered to assume upon themselves the defence of their territory against the enemy...
Page 36 - British — the blockade of her enemy's ports, supported by no adequate force, in consequence of which the American commerce had been plundered in every sea, and the great staples of the country cut off from their legitimate markets — and the British orders in council...
Page 142 - Enlistments of troops were in some instances discouraged, and dissensions arose between the general and state governments, respecting the command of the militia, called out by order of the former, to defend the sea-board. In October, 1814, the legislature of Massachusetts appointed delegates to meet and confer with the delegates from the other states of New England, or any of them, upon the subjects of their public grievances and concerns.
Page 139 - Much as she graced her public station, she has been not less admirable in domestic life. Neighborly and companionable among her country friends, as if she had never lived in a city ; delighting in the society of the young, and never better pleased than when promoting every youthful pleasure by her participation ; she still proved herself the affectionate and devoted wife during the years of suffering health of her excellent husband. Without neglecting the duties of a kind hostess, a faithful friend...
Page 25 - Delightful Task! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning Spirit, and to fix The generous Purpose in the glowing Breast.