The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 54Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1859 - American periodicals |
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... asked . I explained to her the nature of the payment . She made me repeat it . ' That is not the custom , is it ? ' she resumed . ' Yes , Madame , every time you consent to a fresh lease . ' ' But there have been more than ten leases ...
... asked . I explained to her the nature of the payment . She made me repeat it . ' That is not the custom , is it ? ' she resumed . ' Yes , Madame , every time you consent to a fresh lease . ' ' But there have been more than ten leases ...
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... asked her in marriage six months ago . Madame did not seem much opposed to the marriage , and in fact M. de Bévallan is the richest man in this neighborhood , next to the Laroques ; but Mademoiselle , without giving a positive answer ...
... asked her in marriage six months ago . Madame did not seem much opposed to the marriage , and in fact M. de Bévallan is the richest man in this neighborhood , next to the Laroques ; but Mademoiselle , without giving a positive answer ...
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... asking her daughter if it had struck eight . ' No , mother , ' Mlle . Marguerite replied , for Mlle . de Porhoët has not come yet . ' A moment afterwards , as the clock was on the point of striking , the door opened , and Mlle ...
... asking her daughter if it had struck eight . ' No , mother , ' Mlle . Marguerite replied , for Mlle . de Porhoët has not come yet . ' A moment afterwards , as the clock was on the point of striking , the door opened , and Mlle ...
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... asked , ' What induced him to turn soldier ? ' replies : ' Hunger and ambition . ' The answer has the merit of truthfulness , and more- over , puts one in mind of Falstaff's exquisite : What ! a young knave , and beg ? Is there not wars ...
... asked , ' What induced him to turn soldier ? ' replies : ' Hunger and ambition . ' The answer has the merit of truthfulness , and more- over , puts one in mind of Falstaff's exquisite : What ! a young knave , and beg ? Is there not wars ...
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... asking his uncle , the Admiral Henriquez , ' to stop and dine , for they had a chicken for dinner ; ' of Charles at Yuste , with his ' potted capon before he arose , served with sugar , milk , and spices after which he went to sleep ...
... asking his uncle , the Admiral Henriquez , ' to stop and dine , for they had a chicken for dinner ; ' of Charles at Yuste , with his ' potted capon before he arose , served with sugar , milk , and spices after which he went to sleep ...
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Page 578 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 214 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 645 - I shall bo soon ; Beyond the shining and the shading, Beyond the hoping and the dreading, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home ! Sweet hope ! Lord, tarry not, but come.
Page 529 - Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities, Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations, in all difficult cases of his practice. In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton. Between two of the bookcases hung a looking-glass presenting its high and dusty plate within a tarnished gilt frame.
Page 424 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 538 - O gifts with rain and sunshine sent! The bounty overruns our due, The fulness shames our discontent. We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still.
Page 529 - ... little better than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body.
Page 81 - Three Visits to Madagascar during the Years 1853— 1854 — 1856. Including a Journey to the Capital, with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People. By the Rev. WILLIAM ELLIS, FHS, Author of "Polynesian Researehes.
Page 319 - But if the moral pestilence that rises with them, and, in the eternal laws of outraged Nature, is inseparable from them, could be made discernible too, how terrible the revelation ! Then should we see depravity, impiety, drunkenness, theft, murder, and a long train of nameless sins against the natural affections and repulsions of mankind, overhanging the devoted spots, and creeping on, to blight the innocent and spread contagion among the pure.
Page 229 - And what adds to my mortification is, that this post, after the last ships went past it, was held contrary to my wishes and opinion, as I conceived it to be a hazardous one; but, it having been determined on by a full council of general officers, and a resolution of Congress having been received strongly expressive of their desire, that the channel of the river, which we had been laboring to stop for a long time at that place, might be obstructed, if possible, and knowing that this could not be done,...