The Literary World, Volume 7S.R. Crocker, 1877 |
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... Thought , 150 Stillman's ( J. D. B. ) Seeking the Golden 31 Fleece , 168 32 Studies in Ancient History , McLennan , 93 Dark Colleen , Deirdré , Joyce , 188 Loftie's ( W. J. ) Plea for Art in the House , 81 MACAULAY , T. B. , Life and ...
... Thought , 150 Stillman's ( J. D. B. ) Seeking the Golden 31 Fleece , 168 32 Studies in Ancient History , McLennan , 93 Dark Colleen , Deirdré , Joyce , 188 Loftie's ( W. J. ) Plea for Art in the House , 81 MACAULAY , T. B. , Life and ...
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... Thought on Sacred Things , Martin- eau , Houseful of Children , Sanford , How to Dress Well on a Shilling a Day , Howe , S. G. , Memoirs of , Howells's ( A. T. ) Popular Sayings of Old Iberia , Hugo's ( V. ) Légende des Siècles , Hunt's ...
... Thought on Sacred Things , Martin- eau , Houseful of Children , Sanford , How to Dress Well on a Shilling a Day , Howe , S. G. , Memoirs of , Howells's ( A. T. ) Popular Sayings of Old Iberia , Hugo's ( V. ) Légende des Siècles , Hunt's ...
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... thought to be better written , and they certainly live longer , than the reviews of most other people . " Not less complacent is the great man in re- viewing his oratorical career : " Labouchere and Baring are at least as good men of ...
... thought to be better written , and they certainly live longer , than the reviews of most other people . " Not less complacent is the great man in re- viewing his oratorical career : " Labouchere and Baring are at least as good men of ...
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... thought , the tract just quoted , " It could only be ended " ( instead of " could be ended only " ) , is one of at least one hundred similar errors in this volume . VILLAGE - COMMUNITIES . * THOSE HOSE who have read the author's " An ...
... thought , the tract just quoted , " It could only be ended " ( instead of " could be ended only " ) , is one of at least one hundred similar errors in this volume . VILLAGE - COMMUNITIES . * THOSE HOSE who have read the author's " An ...
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... Thought ; " and not less dient . Transferring many of the brothers and ties . But the old lord was too cunning . In deserving of careful study are , " The Theory of Evidence , " and " Roman Law and Legal Education . " To the few who can ...
... Thought ; " and not less dient . Transferring many of the brothers and ties . But the old lord was too cunning . In deserving of careful study are , " The Theory of Evidence , " and " Roman Law and Legal Education . " To the few who can ...
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Page 149 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 149 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 149 - If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Page 136 - For this is the Great Story of the North, which should be to all 'our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been — a story too — then should it be to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us.
Page 149 - MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again.
Page 149 - I have lived more than a quarter of a century, here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington.
Page 42 - ... There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer showers To golden grain or mellow fruit Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
Page 55 - That it should come to this: But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 135 - It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as one gazed around; and the pure mountain air was most refreshing. All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.
Page 21 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.