Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 97Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1898 Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... asked . " Dar , dar , " said I , meaning " yes , " made soft and gracious by duplication . 66 Take your things away , " he signalled in pantomime . " Don't open them . Get a porter . Here , porter , take these things . " I slipped a ...
... asked . " Dar , dar , " said I , meaning " yes , " made soft and gracious by duplication . 66 Take your things away , " he signalled in pantomime . " Don't open them . Get a porter . Here , porter , take these things . " I slipped a ...
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... asked . He is simply a civil engineer , " said my acquaint- ance ; and so I came by degrees to learn that all students , all gov ernment emplo- yés , railway men , and all profes- sionals , like doc- tors , lawyers , ar- chitects , and ...
... asked . He is simply a civil engineer , " said my acquaint- ance ; and so I came by degrees to learn that all students , all gov ernment emplo- yés , railway men , and all profes- sionals , like doc- tors , lawyers , ar- chitects , and ...
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... asked me feveral questions , I not being able to answer , they gave me great blows with their fifts , then pulled out one of my nails . Having loft all hopes , I refolved altogether to die , itt being folly to think otherwife . I could ...
... asked me feveral questions , I not being able to answer , they gave me great blows with their fifts , then pulled out one of my nails . Having loft all hopes , I refolved altogether to die , itt being folly to think otherwife . I could ...
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... asked me if I was agreed . I faid that witches did not battile as openly as ye dogg , butt doe their evil in ye dark . Thefe wild men are fore befet wth witches and devils - more than Chriftians , as they deferve to be , for they are of ...
... asked me if I was agreed . I faid that witches did not battile as openly as ye dogg , butt doe their evil in ye dark . Thefe wild men are fore befet wth witches and devils - more than Chriftians , as they deferve to be , for they are of ...
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... asked , suddenly . " Yes ; I have seen him once . " So have I - only once . But for a woman once is often enough - is it not so ? -to enable one to judge . I wish we had him here . " " He is coming , " answered Dorothy . " I think he is ...
... asked , suddenly . " Yes ; I have seen him once . " So have I - only once . But for a woman once is often enough - is it not so ? -to enable one to judge . I wish we had him here . " " He is coming , " answered Dorothy . " I think he is ...
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Page 416 - Who gave you this Name ? Answer. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 134 - ... it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.
Page 310 - When an ancient word for its sound and significancy deserves to be revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity, to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to be removed ; customs are changed, and even statutes are silently repealed, when the reason ceases for which they were enacted.
Page 601 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 619 - ... ridiculing any of its ceremonies, or affronting its ministers or votaries, has ever been deeply resented, you are to be particularly careful to restrain every officer and soldier from such imprudence and folly, and to punish every instance of it. On the other hand, as far as...
Page 480 - ... approximation. The connecting link is the cabinet. By that new word we mean a committee of the legislative body selected to be the executive body. The legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not, it is true, choose them directly; but it is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly.
Page 629 - Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression,'' with reference to his discourse for the Sabbath, when the door burst open and his sister-in-law entered.
Page 625 - the executive government of this country, in its intercourse with foreign nations, is limited to the employment of diplomacy alone. When this fails it can proceed no further. It cannot legitimately resort to force without the direct authority of Congress, except in resisting and repelling hostile attacks.
Page 261 - Annie had a different theory — at least in regard to the man's family. Indeed, it must be admitted that this warm-hearted, energetic woman had a good many theories, and she talked about them until all Old Chester found her just a little fatiguing. As for the twins, at first the presence of their strong, happy, vital niece...
Page 308 - ... some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and others are in possession of it. I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mob and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.