The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 21Atlantic Monthly Company, 1868 - American essays |
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... hundred and thirteen years ago , with the first hostile act of the long war which secured North America to our race , and gave final pre - emi- nence in Europe to the Protestant pow- ers . Bismarck's recent exploits do but continue the ...
... hundred and thirteen years ago , with the first hostile act of the long war which secured North America to our race , and gave final pre - emi- nence in Europe to the Protestant pow- ers . Bismarck's recent exploits do but continue the ...
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... hundred huge chim- neys , the deep chasm in which Pitts- burg lies was filled full of it , and this smoke was made ... hundreds of steam - hammers . There would be moments when no flames were visible ; but soon the wind would force the ...
... hundred huge chim- neys , the deep chasm in which Pitts- burg lies was filled full of it , and this smoke was made ... hundreds of steam - hammers . There would be moments when no flames were visible ; but soon the wind would force the ...
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... hundred feet above the water's edge , and about one hun- dred feet from the average summit of the hills . It is simply a great cake of coal , lying flat in the hills , uniform , compact , as though this region had once been a lake of ...
... hundred feet above the water's edge , and about one hun- dred feet from the average summit of the hills . It is simply a great cake of coal , lying flat in the hills , uniform , compact , as though this region had once been a lake of ...
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hundred years ; and now a great man rises in Parliament , and startles the world by the assertion that the supply will be practically exhausted in eighty years ! If Mr. Thurston is right , and if Mr. Mill is right , the time is at hand ...
hundred years ; and now a great man rises in Parliament , and startles the world by the assertion that the supply will be practically exhausted in eighty years ! If Mr. Thurston is right , and if Mr. Mill is right , the time is at hand ...
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... hundred and twenty - five thousand dollars . As to that third part of the coal prod- uct of the great Pittsburg Seam which Pittsburg itself consumes , it performs a prodigious quantity of work , assisted by nine thousand mechanics and ...
... hundred and twenty - five thousand dollars . As to that third part of the coal prod- uct of the great Pittsburg Seam which Pittsburg itself consumes , it performs a prodigious quantity of work , assisted by nine thousand mechanics and ...
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Page 56 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike; And like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 226 - The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?
Page 385 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall : The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 482 - That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free.
Page 555 - Little improvement can be expected in morality until the producing large families is regarded with the same feelings as drunkenness or any other physical excess. But while the aristocracy and clergy are foremost to set the example of this kind of incontinence, what can be expected from the poor?
Page 609 - sa narrow ridge in the graveyard Would scarce stay a child in his race, But to me and my thought it is wider Than the star-sown vague of Space.
Page 108 - If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent.
Page 286 - The number was not so great as we expected; and tho' they had been of great use, yet some inconveniences occurring for want of due care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library.
Page 370 - He scarce believes he's older for his years. Thus, at life's latest eve, we keep in store One disappointment sure, to crown the rest; The disappointment of a promis'd hour.
Page 610 - Communion in spirit! Forgive me, But I, who am earthy and weak, Would give all my incomes from dreamland For a touch of her hand on my cheek. That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down.