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Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.
From the foundation of a wooden observatory ... we could see Monadnock, in simple grandeur, in the northwest, rising nearly a thou ...
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always ...
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere ...
A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its ...
The old world stands serenely behind the new, as one mountain yonder towers behind another, more dim and distant. Rome imposes her ...
And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur int ...
Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the n ...
This, it will be remembered, was the scene of Mrs. Rowlandson's capture, and of other events in the Indian wars, but from this Jul ...
We could get no further into the Æneid than
Matque altae moenia Romae,
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