Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 13Macmillan and Company, 1866 |
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... less occupied in trying to bend circum- stances to his schemes than to fit his schemes to circumstances ; caring nothing for details so that the end be reached ; with no self - assertion , except to refuse doing that which he deems ...
... less occupied in trying to bend circum- stances to his schemes than to fit his schemes to circumstances ; caring nothing for details so that the end be reached ; with no self - assertion , except to refuse doing that which he deems ...
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... less to subordinates , in the conduct of their general policy , than Mr. Lincoln , - Washington beyond all doubt incompa- rably more . And this result is achieved , strange to say , not by personal inter- ference or over - ruling ...
... less to subordinates , in the conduct of their general policy , than Mr. Lincoln , - Washington beyond all doubt incompa- rably more . And this result is achieved , strange to say , not by personal inter- ference or over - ruling ...
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... less work than to restore it , when well nigh all the statemanship , half the intellect and warlike power of the American people , were endeavouring to destroy it . For a single man to have carried out the latter work , he must have ...
... less work than to restore it , when well nigh all the statemanship , half the intellect and warlike power of the American people , were endeavouring to destroy it . For a single man to have carried out the latter work , he must have ...
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... less than the quota of Virginia alone . If we reckon the terms of office , the dispro- portion is still more striking . Out of the 76 years which had elapsed till the beginning of Mr. Lincoln's second Presidency , Southern- born ...
... less than the quota of Virginia alone . If we reckon the terms of office , the dispro- portion is still more striking . Out of the 76 years which had elapsed till the beginning of Mr. Lincoln's second Presidency , Southern- born ...
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... less shocked . " " Well thought , " said Ebbo . " Go on and cheer her . Show her thou canst keep the saddle , however it may be with me , " he added , with a groan of anguish . Friedel made the sign of the cross over him . " The holy ...
... less shocked . " " Well thought , " said Ebbo . " Go on and cheer her . Show her thou canst keep the saddle , however it may be with me , " he added , with a groan of anguish . Friedel made the sign of the cross over him . " The holy ...
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Page 208 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 61 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, " Place me in the barge,
Page 452 - Yes, thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft across the day, I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with...
Page 452 - O Thyrsis, still our tree is there ! — Ah, vain ! These English fields, this upland dim, These brambles pale with mist engarlanded, That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him ; To a boon southern country he is fled, And now in happier air, Wandering with the great Mother's train divine (And purer or more subtle soul than thee, I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see) Within a folding of the Apennine...
Page 166 - This greatest of civil wars was not gradually developed by popular commotion, tumultuous assemblies, or local unorganized insurrections. However long may have been its previous conception, it nevertheless sprung forth suddenly from the parent brain, a Minerva in the full panoply of war. The President was bound to meet it in the shape it presented itself, without waiting for Congress to baptize it with a name ; and no name given to it by him or them could change the fact.
Page 453 - What though the music of thy rustic flute Kept not for long its happy, country tone, Lost it too soon, and learnt a stormy note, Of men contention-tost...
Page 201 - Beautiful ! my Country ! ours once more ! Smoothing thy gold of war-dishevelled hair O'er such sweet brows as never other Wore, And letting thy set lips, Freed from wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations bright beyond compare ? What were our lives without thee ? What all our lives to save thee ? We reck not what we gave thee ; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever else,...
Page 232 - CONSIDER. Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief: — We are as they; Like them we fade away, As doth a leaf. Consider The sparrows of the air of small account: Our God doth view Whether they fall or mount, — He guards us too. Consider The lilies that do neither spin nor toil, Yet are most fair: — What profits all this care And all this coil?
Page 357 - ... the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.
Page 453 - Here cam'st thou in thy jocund youthful time, Here was thine height of strength, thy golden prime ! And still the haunt beloved a virtue yields.