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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... suppose they would have eager- ly volunteered to resist a movement which menaced them with total and immediate ruin . But Harper's Ferry had been for a long time little other than a political stew , more occupied with the intrigues of ...
... suppose they would have eager- ly volunteered to resist a movement which menaced them with total and immediate ruin . But Harper's Ferry had been for a long time little other than a political stew , more occupied with the intrigues of ...
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... suppose that all those bodies have been created for some other purpose than merely occasionally to illuminate our skies ? Is this little speck in the universe It is the combustibility of stimulants , such as whisky and brandy , that ...
... suppose that all those bodies have been created for some other purpose than merely occasionally to illuminate our skies ? Is this little speck in the universe It is the combustibility of stimulants , such as whisky and brandy , that ...
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... suppose that Mercury and Venus are too hot to permit of either animal or vege- table life . Venus ís regarded as being red - hot , and Mercury even hotter . If such be the case , In the summer of 1862 , when my large tele- scope had ...
... suppose that Mercury and Venus are too hot to permit of either animal or vege- table life . Venus ís regarded as being red - hot , and Mercury even hotter . If such be the case , In the summer of 1862 , when my large tele- scope had ...
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... suppose so ; but I am well now , and must be going . " A morning of mist and fog - fog reeking in the sunshine , lingering in shreds on forests of ` masts , hanging tender lace - like veils before the great warehouses and over the ...
... suppose so ; but I am well now , and must be going . " A morning of mist and fog - fog reeking in the sunshine , lingering in shreds on forests of ` masts , hanging tender lace - like veils before the great warehouses and over the ...
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... suppose that geography being brought into the fore- ground by Ritter's unparalleled skill , a young man , standing under his protection and enjoying his warm friendship and entire confidence , would have entered into a full share of ...
... suppose that geography being brought into the fore- ground by Ritter's unparalleled skill , a young man , standing under his protection and enjoying his warm friendship and entire confidence , would have entered into a full share of ...
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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.