Putnam's Monthly, Volume 3G.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 - American literature |
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... less and uninformed character of the other civic buildings of the metropolis of the New World . But , something of the won- der which the existence of such a building as the City Hall excites , subsides when we find that it was during ...
... less and uninformed character of the other civic buildings of the metropolis of the New World . But , something of the won- der which the existence of such a building as the City Hall excites , subsides when we find that it was during ...
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... less lines of decimals , in his daily paper , with the intensest zest , forgetting the startling news on the next page , and quite uncon- scious , shame upon him , of the fine moral disquisitions of the editor in the very next paragraph ...
... less lines of decimals , in his daily paper , with the intensest zest , forgetting the startling news on the next page , and quite uncon- scious , shame upon him , of the fine moral disquisitions of the editor in the very next paragraph ...
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... less only than the area covered by the fifty - nine or sixty empires , states , and republics of Europe ; and of equal extent with the Roman empire , or that of Alex- ander , neither of which is said to have exceeded 3,000,000 square ...
... less only than the area covered by the fifty - nine or sixty empires , states , and republics of Europe ; and of equal extent with the Roman empire , or that of Alex- ander , neither of which is said to have exceeded 3,000,000 square ...
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... less remarkable than their physical activity . They take care of their unfortunate bro- thers , of the insane , the idiotic , the mute , the criminal , and the poor ( of the latter of whom they have happily fewer than any other nation ) ...
... less remarkable than their physical activity . They take care of their unfortunate bro- thers , of the insane , the idiotic , the mute , the criminal , and the poor ( of the latter of whom they have happily fewer than any other nation ) ...
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... less - and I moralized . I thought to myself what a devout char- latan in sentiment Cowper was , and won- dered whether he would have been willing to be " shut out from all noise and rumors of the world , " in the same man- ner that I ...
... less - and I moralized . I thought to myself what a devout char- latan in sentiment Cowper was , and won- dered whether he would have been willing to be " shut out from all noise and rumors of the world , " in the same man- ner that I ...
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Page 269 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 178 - BETTER trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing. Oh, in this mocking world, too fast The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth; Better be cheated to the last Than lose the blessed hope of truth.
Page 111 - I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs.
Page 250 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 164 - So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same...
Page 392 - What must be done, Sir, will be done. When I was to begin publishing that paper, I was at a loss how to name it. I sat down at night upon my bedside, and resolved that I would not go to sleep till I had fixed its title. The Rambler seemed the best that occurred, and I took it'.
Page 392 - Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and esteems. Her approbation may be said to "come home to his bosom ;" and being so near, its effect is most sensible and permanent.
Page 109 - Fathers, you in former days set a silver basin before us, wherein there was the leg of a beaver, and desired all the nations to come and eat of it, to eat in peace and plenty, and not to be churlish to one another; and that if any such person should be found to be a disturber, I here lay down by the edge of the dish a rod, which you must scourge them...
Page 178 - But, go to ! thy love Shall chant itself its own beatitudes, After its own life-working. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad : A poor man served by thee, shall make thee rich ; A sick man, helped by thee, shall make thee strong ; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
Page 390 - I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.