The Coquette; Or, The History of Eliza Wharton. A Novel: Founded on FactW. P. Fetridge, 1855 - 286 pages |
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The Coquette Or the History of Eliza Wharton A Novel Founded on Fact Hannah Webster Foster No preview available - 2004 |
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Page 243 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
Page 121 - I hear the sound of feet! they march this way! Let us retire, and try if we can drown Each softer thought in sense of present danger. When love once pleads admission to our hearts (In spite of all the virtue we can boast) The woman that deliberates is lost.
Page 9 - ... these pages, taken from an original painting.) He died in Hartford also, March 2, 1776, aged sixty-eight years, after having served in the ministry in that place forty-three of the same. His tombstone bears the following inscription: — IN MEMORY OF THE REV. ELNATHAN WHITMAN, Pastor of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford, and one of the fellows of the corporation of Yale College, who departed this life the 2d day of March, AD 1776, in the 69th year of his age and 44th of his ministry. Endowed...
Page 140 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 191 - To you, good gods, I make my last appeal ; Or clear my virtues, or my crimes reveal. If in the maze of fate I blindly run, And backward trod those paths I sought to shun, Impute my errors to your own decree : My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
Page 88 - An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
Page 120 - Content, or pleasure, but the good and just? Judges and senates have been bought for gold, Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Page 62 - True, we cannot always pay that attention to former associates, which we may wish; but the little community which we superintend is quite as important an object; and certainly renders us more beneficial to the public. True benevolence, though it may change its objects, is not limited by time or place. Its effects are the same, and aided by a second self, are rendered more diffusive and salutary.
Page 297 - Mid publisher. He has recently added two stories to his building on Washington Street, making it six stories in height. One of these is occupied as a library and reading room ; so the ladies say Fetridge has a new library idea, and a good one. He puts two hundred copies of every new book that is likely to create an excitement into his library, so that subscribers are never told that the Tolume they desire is
Page 86 - With regard to its being a dependent situation, what one is not so? Are we not all links in the great chain of society, some more, some less important, but each upheld by others, throughout the confederated whole ? In whatever situation we are placed, our greater or less degree of happiness must be derived from ourselves.