American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 8Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... course of the river , but in a direct line is only about one - third of that distance . The journey by boat re- quires from ten to thirty days , according as the water is high or low . In the rainy sides were covered with corrugated ...
... course of the river , but in a direct line is only about one - third of that distance . The journey by boat re- quires from ten to thirty days , according as the water is high or low . In the rainy sides were covered with corrugated ...
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... course of France in interfering with the right of Mexico to adopt such a form of gov- ernment as its people desired - perhaps without taking any pains to determine precisely to what extent the Republic and not the Empire was the choice ...
... course of France in interfering with the right of Mexico to adopt such a form of gov- ernment as its people desired - perhaps without taking any pains to determine precisely to what extent the Republic and not the Empire was the choice ...
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... course , to keep house for the bee , that sweet soul - taker That thief , the honey - maker , What a house hath he , by the thymy glen ! The entrance to her home , where in remotest recess the limpid honey is hid- den , is guarded by ...
... course , to keep house for the bee , that sweet soul - taker That thief , the honey - maker , What a house hath he , by the thymy glen ! The entrance to her home , where in remotest recess the limpid honey is hid- den , is guarded by ...
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... course of empire takes its way , " has be- come the literary key - note of American national development . He met Berke- ley in Italy , and together they came to America to carry out the bishop's great scheme of founding a university in ...
... course of empire takes its way , " has be- come the literary key - note of American national development . He met Berke- ley in Italy , and together they came to America to carry out the bishop's great scheme of founding a university in ...
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... course true ; but the law which re- quired every woman to rise to this stand- ard of good - breeding was universal . Much has been said about the educa- tion of women in the South - or , rather , their want of education , as a certain ...
... course true ; but the law which re- quired every woman to rise to this stand- ard of good - breeding was universal . Much has been said about the educa- tion of women in the South - or , rather , their want of education , as a certain ...
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Page 482 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 531 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Page 532 - Not what man sees, but what God sees — the Ideas of Plato, seeds of creation lying burningly on the Divine Hand — it is toward these that he struggles. Not with the combination of humanity in action, but with the primal elements of humanity he has to do; and he digs where he stands, — preferring to seek them in his own soul as the nearest reflex of that absolute Mind, according to the intuitions of which he desires to perceive and speak.
Page 421 - Ackland, a lady of the first distinction of family, rank, and personal virtues, is under such concern on account of Major Ackland, her husband, wounded and a prisoner in your hands, that I cannot refuse her request to commit her to your protection. Whatever general impropriety there may be in persons...
Page 503 - And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness : for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Page 479 - THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright.
Page 481 - Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done...
Page 482 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 705 - I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Page 479 - Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope...