Scribner's Magazine, Volume 54Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan Charles Scribners Sons, 1913 |
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... play out slowly by automatic release , until the vessel is brought to a stop . The chain , which weighs 24,098 pounds , and is the strongest ever made , is capable of stopping a 10,000 - ton ship , running at four miles an hour , within ...
... play out slowly by automatic release , until the vessel is brought to a stop . The chain , which weighs 24,098 pounds , and is the strongest ever made , is capable of stopping a 10,000 - ton ship , running at four miles an hour , within ...
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... play in varying colors . Anchored out in the harbor in front of the esplanade will be several batteries of these colored search- lights , with men drilled to operate them in ways such as to obtain combination effects from shafts of ...
... play in varying colors . Anchored out in the harbor in front of the esplanade will be several batteries of these colored search- lights , with men drilled to operate them in ways such as to obtain combination effects from shafts of ...
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... playing Patience , embroidering , or reading odd volumes of Tauchnitz . Undine , driven by despair to an inspection of the melancholy hotel li- brary , discovered that scarcely any work it contained was complete ; but this did not seem ...
... playing Patience , embroidering , or reading odd volumes of Tauchnitz . Undine , driven by despair to an inspection of the melancholy hotel li- brary , discovered that scarcely any work it contained was complete ; but this did not seem ...
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... play at such short notice . She took her cue , how- ever , from the fact that the Princess Es- tradina , in her mother's presence , made no farther allusion to her dear friend Sacha , and seemed somehow , though she continued to chat on ...
... play at such short notice . She took her cue , how- ever , from the fact that the Princess Es- tradina , in her mother's presence , made no farther allusion to her dear friend Sacha , and seemed somehow , though she continued to chat on ...
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... playing over by the public - house , the church was dressed with flags and green boughs , and about the station a large crowd was assembled . A long dreary journey down to Antofagasta , at present the only other means of com- munication ...
... playing over by the public - house , the church was dressed with flags and green boughs , and about the station a large crowd was assembled . A long dreary journey down to Antofagasta , at present the only other means of com- munication ...
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Page 322 - ... borne the heat and burden of the war, and who can have in reality very few hardships to complain of; and when we at the same time recollect, that those soldiers, who have lately been furloughed from this army, are the veterans who have patiently endured hunger, nakedness, and cold, who have suffered and bled without a murmur, and who, with perfect good order, have retired to their homes without a settlement of their accounts, or a farthing of money in their pockets...
Page 327 - I told him that I was really a stranger to the whole subject ; that, not having yet informed myself of the system of finance adopted, I knew not how far this was a necessary sequence ; that, undoubtedly, if its rejection endangered a dissolution of our Union at this incipient stage, I should deem that the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded.
Page 327 - I proposed to him, however, to dine with me the next day, and I would invite another friend or two, bring them into conference together, and I thought it impossible that reasonable men, consulting together coolly, could fail, by some mutual sacrifices of opinion, to form a compromise which was to save the Union. The discussion took place. I could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it.
Page 3 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.
Page 322 - While I suffer the most poignant distress in observing that a handful of men, contemptible in numbers, and equally so in point of service, (if the veteran troops from the southward have not been seduced by their example,) and who are not worthy to be called soldiers...
Page 327 - ... him; and that, the question having been lost by a small majority only, it was probable that an appeal from me to the judgment and discretion of some of my friends might effect a change in the vote, and the machine of government, now suspended, might be again set into motion.
Page 112 - I HAD been in and out of Constantinople a good many years before I even heard of the Sacred Caravan. The first I heard of it then was on the Bridge one day, when I became aware of a drum beating out a curious slow rhythm: one, two, three, four, five, six; one, two, three, Jour, five, six.
Page 327 - But it was observed, that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted, to sweeten it a little to them. There had...
Page 629 - And you're all alike,' he exclaimed, 'every one of you. You come among us from a country we don't know, and can't imagine, a country you care for so little that before you've been a day in ours you've forgotten the very house you were born in - if it wasn't torn down before you knew it! You come among us speaking our language and not knowing what we mean; wanting the things we want, and not knowing why we want them; aping our weaknesses, exaggerating our follies, ignoring or ridiculing all we care...
Page 3 - An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world.