Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National Interests, Volume 3G. P. Putnam & Son., 1854 |
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... miles dis- tant , among the breezy hills of Westches- ter , which is five miles long . These im- mense reservoirs are trifling when com- pared with the whole aqueduct , which is forty miles in length , and , by the side of which all ...
... miles dis- tant , among the breezy hills of Westches- ter , which is five miles long . These im- mense reservoirs are trifling when com- pared with the whole aqueduct , which is forty miles in length , and , by the side of which all ...
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... Miles 778,268 1,237,311 637,100 Area of the Atlantic slope , including only the waters falling into the Gulf of ... miles . The territorial extent of the republic , then , as Mr. De Bow remarks , is nearly ten times as large as that of ...
... Miles 778,268 1,237,311 637,100 Area of the Atlantic slope , including only the waters falling into the Gulf of ... miles . The territorial extent of the republic , then , as Mr. De Bow remarks , is nearly ten times as large as that of ...
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... miles of canals , of which those in New - York State alone carry annually 3,582,733 tons ; 13,315 miles of railway completed , whose commerce is valued at $ 1,081,500,000 , besides 12,681 miles in progress . Our total lake , river ...
... miles of canals , of which those in New - York State alone carry annually 3,582,733 tons ; 13,315 miles of railway completed , whose commerce is valued at $ 1,081,500,000 , besides 12,681 miles in progress . Our total lake , river ...
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... - tains , thousands of miles from the haunts of civilization . I had never been in the lodge of the Pawnee , the Sioux , the Oma- haw , the Cheyenne , the " Digger , " 24 [ January An Adventure on the Plains . Adventure on the Plains,
... - tains , thousands of miles from the haunts of civilization . I had never been in the lodge of the Pawnee , the Sioux , the Oma- haw , the Cheyenne , the " Digger , " 24 [ January An Adventure on the Plains . Adventure on the Plains,
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... miles from my starting point on the Missouri River . I was well equipped for such a journey . A light carriage ... mile from my own , and I pined for the society I had found so congenial . So , encasing myself in an India Rubber suit ...
... miles from my starting point on the Missouri River . I was well equipped for such a journey . A light carriage ... mile from my own , and I pined for the society I had found so congenial . So , encasing myself in an India Rubber suit ...
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Page 261 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is...
Page 263 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 28 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Page 337 - While many of his tribe slumber'd around ; And they were canopied by the blue sky — So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in heaven.
Page 380 - What must be done, Sir, will be done. When I was to begin publishing that paper, I was at a loss how to name it. I sat down at night upon my bedside, and resolved that I would not go to sleep till I had fixed its title. The Rambler seemed the best that occurred, and I took it'.
Page 380 - Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and esteems. Her approbation may be said to "come home to his bosom ;" and being so near, its effect is most sensible and permanent.
Page 339 - Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreath, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and grey beneath. Oh, could I feel as I have felt, — or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanish'd scene ; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me.
Page 104 - I cannot say that ever in my life I suffered so much anxiety as I did in this affair...
Page 68 - WITHIN this lowly grave a Conqueror lies, And yet the monument proclaims it not, Nor round the sleeper's name hath chisel wrought The emblems of a fame that never dies, Ivy and amaranth in a graceful sheaf, Twined with the laurel's fair, imperial leaf. A simple name alone, To the great world unknown, Is graven here, and wild flowers, rising round, Meek meadow-sweet and violets of the ground, Lean lovingly against the humble stone.
Page 383 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.