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Page 19
... nearly four hundred thousand dollars . It is people who feel the utility of copper coin that can do such things . He From some of the expensive foibles of human nature the people of Pitts- burg are necessarily exempt . There can never ...
... nearly four hundred thousand dollars . It is people who feel the utility of copper coin that can do such things . He From some of the expensive foibles of human nature the people of Pitts- burg are necessarily exempt . There can never ...
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... Nearly every opera- tion goes on in silence , and without the least fuss or hurry . We will endeavor to show , in a few words , how it is that a large lump of iron with a hole in it should cost so much . To people outside of the iron ...
... Nearly every opera- tion goes on in silence , and without the least fuss or hurry . We will endeavor to show , in a few words , how it is that a large lump of iron with a hole in it should cost so much . To people outside of the iron ...
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... nearly impossible to convey an idea of it on paper . When it is ready , it is hoisted by steam - derricks , and let down into a pit , where it stands on end , with open mouth , ready for the fiery fluid . Those steam - derricks are ...
... nearly impossible to convey an idea of it on paper . When it is ready , it is hoisted by steam - derricks , and let down into a pit , where it stands on end , with open mouth , ready for the fiery fluid . Those steam - derricks are ...
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... nearly the same thing , insular . Had he been born within sound of Bow - bells he could not have written more ludi- crous criticisms upon French character than his journal shows . The results of German speculation he regarded with the ...
... nearly the same thing , insular . Had he been born within sound of Bow - bells he could not have written more ludi- crous criticisms upon French character than his journal shows . The results of German speculation he regarded with the ...
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... nearly to the base , and between their steep abut- ments the mouths of dim , folding gorges gave promise of rare and origi- nal scenery within their recesses . We passed Santa Maria , a beautiful little village of two streets , at the ...
... nearly to the base , and between their steep abut- ments the mouths of dim , folding gorges gave promise of rare and origi- nal scenery within their recesses . We passed Santa Maria , a beautiful little village of two streets , at the ...
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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.