Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 33Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1866 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 3
... hope must submit quietly and unresistingly to " Many are in high place and of renown , but mysteries are revealed to the meek . " So it seems in our day - while our statesmen are turned drivelers , our honorables colloguing with treason ...
... hope must submit quietly and unresistingly to " Many are in high place and of renown , but mysteries are revealed to the meek . " So it seems in our day - while our statesmen are turned drivelers , our honorables colloguing with treason ...
Page 6
... hope of extracting a few drops of the milk of human kindness wherewith to assuage the flames . The news- papers are standing at either end of the fur- nace heaving in tar , pitch , rosin , petroleum , and bacon - sides , with most ...
... hope of extracting a few drops of the milk of human kindness wherewith to assuage the flames . The news- papers are standing at either end of the fur- nace heaving in tar , pitch , rosin , petroleum , and bacon - sides , with most ...
Page 10
... hope that I might use some influence , even there , to avert the commission of a deed which he abhorred from his inmost soul . I promised to follow them . The regiment moved off , and after dinner I walked down the turn- pike to ...
... hope that I might use some influence , even there , to avert the commission of a deed which he abhorred from his inmost soul . I promised to follow them . The regiment moved off , and after dinner I walked down the turn- pike to ...
Page 14
... hope . It was something to belong to such a nationality . Something to be able , in following one's busi- ness or pleasure , to travel to and fro without question or hindrance , to take red - fish in the Mexican Gulf or trout in the ...
... hope . It was something to belong to such a nationality . Something to be able , in following one's busi- ness or pleasure , to travel to and fro without question or hindrance , to take red - fish in the Mexican Gulf or trout in the ...
Page 17
... hope that views taken from an original and somewhat peculiar stand - point may still possess sufficient attraction to justify their publication , and that a personal narrative , with all its incidental triv - day , and was the less ...
... hope that views taken from an original and somewhat peculiar stand - point may still possess sufficient attraction to justify their publication , and that a personal narrative , with all its incidental triv - day , and was the less ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Absalom Armadale arms army asked Austria Bashwood batteries beautiful better called Captain Charlestown Chatam Colonel color command Congress Darnestown dear direct taxes doctor door eral eyes face father feel feet fire Fool Catcher Foxglove Galveston gentlemen give Government guns hand Harper's Ferry Harriet Lane head heard heart honor hope horses hour hundred knew lady Lisbon live looked Louisa Martinsburg ment Mexico Midwinter miles Miss Gwilt morning mother nation nest never night officers once Orleans passed person poor Praça present Prussia rebel Reese River regiment replied returned river Sanatorium schooner Scranton seemed side soldiers soon Stickle-back stood street tell thing thought tion told took town troops turned United Virginia voice wife woman women words young
Popular passages
Page 302 - But in a larger sense we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — :we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
Page 102 - ... this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 302 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
Page 236 - Come you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!
Page 302 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 161 - The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep, The tender azure of the unruffled deep, The orange tints that gild the greenest bough, The torrents that from cliff to valley leap, The vine on high, the willow branch below, Mix'd in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
Page 104 - Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring) : That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 233 - And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Page 408 - ARMY LIFE ON THE BORDER. Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border. Comprising Descriptions of the Indian Nomads of the Plains; Explorations of New Territory ; a Trip across the Rocky Mountains in the Winter ; Descriptions of the Habits of Different Animals found in the West, and the Methods of Hunting them; with Incidents in the Life of Different Frontier Men, &c., &c.
Page 201 - For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness : because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.