The New England Magazine, Volume 4; Volume 10New England Magazine Company, 1891 |
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... person and take possession of it for the incipient Confederacy . I have in my scrap - book a list of those , thirty in all , who were there as privates at the time when I , thanks to my drilling under Salig- nac , had the honor of being ...
... person and take possession of it for the incipient Confederacy . I have in my scrap - book a list of those , thirty in all , who were there as privates at the time when I , thanks to my drilling under Salig- nac , had the honor of being ...
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... person on earth of whom he stood in the least in awe was his tall , regal daughter . Whenever a question arose between the two , it was the father , not the daughter , who went to the wall . The personal charms of the girl had been the ...
... person on earth of whom he stood in the least in awe was his tall , regal daughter . Whenever a question arose between the two , it was the father , not the daughter , who went to the wall . The personal charms of the girl had been the ...
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... person , in all Black Gulch , for whom his heart was yearning had not come . And now , when the twilight was closing in , and they had all gone , and he was left alone , the thoughts of the dreari- ness of his life came over him with ...
... person , in all Black Gulch , for whom his heart was yearning had not come . And now , when the twilight was closing in , and they had all gone , and he was left alone , the thoughts of the dreari- ness of his life came over him with ...
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... persons just knew that it was he who had set fire to Stevens's barn , and they knew , too , that he had done it designedly . Others did not profess to positively know they didn't wish to do any man an injustice ; but if it were not the ...
... persons just knew that it was he who had set fire to Stevens's barn , and they knew , too , that he had done it designedly . Others did not profess to positively know they didn't wish to do any man an injustice ; but if it were not the ...
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... person to whom the letter was written . Within , it addressed itself only to " My dearest Minor . " The full name of the writer , Jeannette Pierson , was signed to it , however , and the place whence it was written , a little New ...
... person to whom the letter was written . Within , it addressed itself only to " My dearest Minor . " The full name of the writer , Jeannette Pierson , was signed to it , however , and the place whence it was written , a little New ...
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Page 367 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 406 - ... modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress, far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury.
Page 97 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning.
Page 406 - The press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontry.
Page 463 - Next to the fugitives whom Moses led out of Egypt, the little ship-load of outcasts who landed at Plymouth two centuries and a half ago are destined to influence the future of the world.
Page 32 - To determine the question whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently.
Page 586 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
Page 535 - Successors as of our Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 175 - When, in the sublime lessons of Christianity, he (the slaveholder) is taught to "do unto others as he would have others do unto him," HE NEVER DREAMS THAT THE DEGRADED NEGRO IS WITHIN THE PALE OF THAT HOLY CANON.
Page 142 - Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter...