American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 8Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... knew would be the result- and the inferiority in rank of the court selected to try him . The Imperial pris- oner attracted the attention of all Mexico , and the President at San Luis Potosí was besieged by petitions from every part of ...
... knew would be the result- and the inferiority in rank of the court selected to try him . The Imperial pris- oner attracted the attention of all Mexico , and the President at San Luis Potosí was besieged by petitions from every part of ...
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... knew not how to govern , ' said one of his Republican critics , " at least knew how to die . " All over Mexico there were mourning and tears of pity for the attractive prince , whose career had been so sadly ended in his thirty- fifth ...
... knew not how to govern , ' said one of his Republican critics , " at least knew how to die . " All over Mexico there were mourning and tears of pity for the attractive prince , whose career had been so sadly ended in his thirty- fifth ...
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... knew him well , I suppose , Mrs. Delaplaine , when your husband was alive ? " " Yes , " Olivia said . " I knew him very well . His illness is a great surprise to me - and a shock also . Can you give me his address ? " " I can have it ...
... knew him well , I suppose , Mrs. Delaplaine , when your husband was alive ? " " Yes , " Olivia said . " I knew him very well . His illness is a great surprise to me - and a shock also . Can you give me his address ? " " I can have it ...
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... knew nothing about it ; I never told him . " Here she coughed , as though to give herself time for fresh inventions . " I thought he might refer to it on some occasion when Mr. Delaplaine was not in the best of humors - you understand ...
... knew nothing about it ; I never told him . " Here she coughed , as though to give herself time for fresh inventions . " I thought he might refer to it on some occasion when Mr. Delaplaine was not in the best of humors - you understand ...
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... knew that I loved you . It was torture for me to see him treat you as he did . I shall never forget that last evening at dinner . When I left you , a little later , after you had fainted , you believed ( did you not ? ) that I had left ...
... knew that I loved you . It was torture for me to see him treat you as he did . I shall never forget that last evening at dinner . When I left you , a little later , after you had fainted , you believed ( did you not ? ) that I had left ...
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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...