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. |
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... matter , declaring , on his honor , that he had not even visited Harper's Ferry . I silenced him , and went on to state when , where , and to whom he had un- bosomed himself . He was struck dumb . After heaping upon him every outrageous ...
... matter , declaring , on his honor , that he had not even visited Harper's Ferry . I silenced him , and went on to state when , where , and to whom he had un- bosomed himself . He was struck dumb . After heaping upon him every outrageous ...
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... matter of course , every body thought the mines were a humbug ; the miners a race of savages , armed to the teeth with pistols and bowie - knives ; and the climate so boisterous that it was necessary to cling to awning - posts to keep ...
... matter of course , every body thought the mines were a humbug ; the miners a race of savages , armed to the teeth with pistols and bowie - knives ; and the climate so boisterous that it was necessary to cling to awning - posts to keep ...
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... matter ? the place hateful to Margaret . If she could She only bent down over the crib and kissed have had " carte blanche in those first pleas- the pinky cheek , saying over and over again , inant days she would have made a bright ...
... matter ? the place hateful to Margaret . If she could She only bent down over the crib and kissed have had " carte blanche in those first pleas- the pinky cheek , saying over and over again , inant days she would have made a bright ...
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... matter's wealth I'm conquering the zone ; No ! ' tis that Science , Letters , Art , Shall share my mighty throne : And yet unto their coronals Must all the nations bow , While the iron Trump of Action storms In thunder o'er my brow ...
... matter's wealth I'm conquering the zone ; No ! ' tis that Science , Letters , Art , Shall share my mighty throne : And yet unto their coronals Must all the nations bow , While the iron Trump of Action storms In thunder o'er my brow ...
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... matter by any useless recrimination on my side . I put the warning away privately in my memory for future use , and got up to go . " At the moment when I left my chair there was a sharp double knock at the street - door . Mrs. Oldershaw ...
... matter by any useless recrimination on my side . I put the warning away privately in my memory for future use , and got up to go . " At the moment when I left my chair there was a sharp double knock at the street - door . Mrs. Oldershaw ...
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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.