It is now two hundred years since attempts have been made to civilize the North American savage.
Doing well has something more in it than the fulfilling of a duty.
You will expect me to say something of the lonely records of the former races that inhabited this country.
There is no virtue without a characteristic beauty to make it particularly loved by the good, and to make the bad ashamed of their neglect of it.
A sacrifice was never yet offered to a principle, that was not made up to us by self-approval, and the consideration of what our degradation would have been had we done otherwise.
The following story has been handed down by family tradition for more than a century.
The succession and contrast of the seasons give scope to that care and foresight, diligence and industry, which are essential to the dignity and enjoyment of human beings, whose happiness is connected with the exertion of their faculties.
A lion of the largest size measures from eight to nine feet from the muzzle to the origin of the tail, which last is of itself about four feet long. The height of the larger specimens is four or five feet.
The following anecdote will show with what obstinate perseverance pack-horses have been known to preserve the line of their order.
Good-morning to you, Charles! Whose book is that which you have under your arm?