The sea all
about her had the black, iron aspect which I have described; but the
vessel herself was alight. Hull, masts, and spars were all gilded, and
the rigging was made of golden threads. A small white streak of foam
breaking around the bows, which were towards the wind. The shadowiness
of the clouds overhead made the effect of the sunlight strange, where it
fell.
September.--The elm-trees have golden branches intermingled with their
green already, and so they had on the first of the month.
To picture the predicament of worldly people, if admitted to paradise.
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures,
American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The
Egyptian is so of the cavern and mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the
Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.
"Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it,"--an
extempore prayer by a New England divine.
In old times it must have been much less customary than now to drink pure
water. Walker emphatically mentions, among the sufferings of a
clergyman's wife and family in the Great Rebellion, that they were forced
to drink water, with crab-apples stamped in it to relish it.
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