Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 98Harper's Magazine Company, 1899 Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... brought to by a shot across the bows , her watches rear- ranged , and the course of the two ships changed for North Haven . Old Captain's intention was never known . The island would have been no refuge . Possibly he sailed for his wife ...
... brought to by a shot across the bows , her watches rear- ranged , and the course of the two ships changed for North Haven . Old Captain's intention was never known . The island would have been no refuge . Possibly he sailed for his wife ...
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... brought him even to the roof of houses , and a power of over- turning by a single push the chubbiest child who opposed him , made him a fear- ful joy to the nursery . This last qual- ity was incautiously developed in him by a negro boy ...
... brought him even to the roof of houses , and a power of over- turning by a single push the chubbiest child who opposed him , made him a fear- ful joy to the nursery . This last qual- ity was incautiously developed in him by a negro boy ...
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... brought to the task all the arts he knew . Indeed , he even summoned to his aid some that he did not know , and was constrained to borrow , as , for instance , the writing of numerous love - verses , for whose form the writer of this ...
... brought to the task all the arts he knew . Indeed , he even summoned to his aid some that he did not know , and was constrained to borrow , as , for instance , the writing of numerous love - verses , for whose form the writer of this ...
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... brought home for dead , followed by a procession of excited women and children . When he heard the news , Steve forgot that he was a single man , and rushing into the cabin , he snatched up the child from Salina's lap and held her on ...
... brought home for dead , followed by a procession of excited women and children . When he heard the news , Steve forgot that he was a single man , and rushing into the cabin , he snatched up the child from Salina's lap and held her on ...
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... brought forth a small folding- table , and the priest , still in his rusty soutane , recited the holy office of the mass to the kneeling savages under the shade of the great pines , and only the ripple of the water broke the pauses in ...
... brought forth a small folding- table , and the priest , still in his rusty soutane , recited the holy office of the mass to the kneeling savages under the shade of the great pines , and only the ripple of the water broke the pauses in ...
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Page 498 - That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 498 - Second, that it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the government of the United States does hereby demand, that the government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 495 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 498 - WHEREAS, the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating, as they have, in the destruction of a United States battleship, with two hundred and sixty-six of its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana...
Page 206 - There is an idea, which is not without its advocates, that a vigorous Executive is inconsistent with the genius of republican government. The enlightened well-wishers to this species of government must at least hope that the supposition is destitute of foundation; since they can never admit its truth, without at the same time admitting the condemnation of their own principles. Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.
Page 206 - A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be in practice a bad government.
Page 475 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 497 - In view of these facts and of these considerations, I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the Government of Spain and the people of Cuba, and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government, capable of maintaining order and observing its international obligations, insuring peace and tranquillity and the security of its citizens as well as our own, and to use the military and naval forces...
Page 337 - Pillow agreed with us in opinion. General Pillow then asked our opinion as to the practicability of holding our position another day. I replied that my right was already turned, a portion...
Page 335 - ... struck the pilot-house, knocked the plating to pieces, and sent fragments of iron and splinters into the pilots, one of whom fell mortally wounded, and was taken below ; another shot took away the remaining boat-davits and the boat with them; and still they came, harder and faster, taking flag-staffs and smoke-stacks, and tearing off the side armor as lightning tears the bark from a tree.