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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... better . What a pity we can not get up a foreign war ! Yet Uncle Sam for some years past seems to have been trying ( like the hero of Don- nybrook Fair ) to induce somebody to tread on his coat - tail . But other people know him better ...
... better . What a pity we can not get up a foreign war ! Yet Uncle Sam for some years past seems to have been trying ( like the hero of Don- nybrook Fair ) to induce somebody to tread on his coat - tail . But other people know him better ...
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... better account than it would be in private brawls . Having satisfactorily disposed of this " ridic- ulus mus , " the product of the mountains , I started next morning ( May 30 ) to return to Charlestown . At Martinsburg I found every ...
... better account than it would be in private brawls . Having satisfactorily disposed of this " ridic- ulus mus , " the product of the mountains , I started next morning ( May 30 ) to return to Charlestown . At Martinsburg I found every ...
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... better alone - freer , more untrammeled - a true and beautiful life . For she would give herself to art . She had earned her bread in that way once , and could do more now , with dear little Dot to nerve her to steady effort . After all ...
... better alone - freer , more untrammeled - a true and beautiful life . For she would give herself to art . She had earned her bread in that way once , and could do more now , with dear little Dot to nerve her to steady effort . After all ...
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... better , than was Henry Barth . Yet such are the jealousies of that body , such the petty little- nesses which can creep in even under the shel- ter of so august a name as Science , that the great philologist and discoverer was never ...
... better , than was Henry Barth . Yet such are the jealousies of that body , such the petty little- nesses which can creep in even under the shel- ter of so august a name as Science , that the great philologist and discoverer was never ...
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... better still with his English mate . The sailors being all foreigners I had very little to say to . They did their work , and no quarrels and nothing unpleasant happened . If any body had told me , before I went to bed on the night ...
... better still with his English mate . The sailors being all foreigners I had very little to say to . They did their work , and no quarrels and nothing unpleasant happened . If any body had told me , before I went to bed on the night ...
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Page 322 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 322 - 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 122 - ... 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 256 - 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 253 - 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 221 - For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness : because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Page 5 - Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one Who can rule and dare not lie.
Page 114 - I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Page 123 - ... shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens...
Page 123 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind, and to no other.