The Book Buyer, Volume 21Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900 A review and record of current literature. |
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... matters far out of the reach of most women's experience . I saw the fringe of the war and heard the dread sound of cannon fired in battle . " Last year , when walking down the Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris , gazing at the wonderful ...
... matters far out of the reach of most women's experience . I saw the fringe of the war and heard the dread sound of cannon fired in battle . " Last year , when walking down the Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris , gazing at the wonderful ...
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... matters which required delicate handling , the exercise of tact , and the parrying sometimes with the arts of the most accomplished diplomats of other nations . These duties he met with an intelligence and will which brought him at once ...
... matters which required delicate handling , the exercise of tact , and the parrying sometimes with the arts of the most accomplished diplomats of other nations . These duties he met with an intelligence and will which brought him at once ...
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... matter of record , " the first of its kind ever paid to an American diplomat at any foreign court . " JOHN LOTHROP ... matters . involving ability , tact and delicacy . Per- haps an impulsive , truth - loving nature never attains to ...
... matter of record , " the first of its kind ever paid to an American diplomat at any foreign court . " JOHN LOTHROP ... matters . involving ability , tact and delicacy . Per- haps an impulsive , truth - loving nature never attains to ...
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... matters and as a young man had published a " Historical Inquiry Concerning Henry Hudson . " He was connected with nu- merous historical bodies and was a collec- tor of documents and archives , among them the letter - books of Robert ...
... matters and as a young man had published a " Historical Inquiry Concerning Henry Hudson . " He was connected with nu- merous historical bodies and was a collec- tor of documents and archives , among them the letter - books of Robert ...
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... matter of national duty , we must hold Cuba , at least for a time , and till a permanent government is well established , for which we can afford to be responsible ; we must hold Porto Rico ; and we may have to hold the Philippines ...
... matter of national duty , we must hold Cuba , at least for a time , and till a permanent government is well established , for which we can afford to be responsible ; we must hold Porto Rico ; and we may have to hold the Philippines ...
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Page 277 - Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him; The little gray leaves were kind to Him; The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him —...
Page 277 - FOUR things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellow-men sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heaven securely.
Page 32 - O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn: Or in the all-golden afternoon A guest, or happy sister, sung, Or here she brought the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon...
Page 275 - I trace in many respects a strong resemblance between her mental features and Georgina's — so strange a one, at times, that when she and Kate and I are sitting together, I seem to think that what has happened is a melancholy dream from which I am just awakening.
Page 29 - Madonna-wise on either side her head ; Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead.
Page 291 - The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts his country, the over-civilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills "stern men with empires in their brains...
Page 277 - De po' los' sheep ob de sheepfol', Dey all comes gadderin' in. De po' los' sheep ob de sheepfol', Dey all comes gadderin
Page 274 - The desire to be buried next her is as strong upon me now, as it was five years ago; and I know (for I don't think there ever was love like that I bear her) that it will never diminish. I fear I can do nothing. Do you think I can? They would move her on Wednesday, if I resolved to have it done. I cannot bear the thought of being excluded from her dust; and yet I feel that her brothers and sisters, and her mother, have a better right than I to be placed beside her. It is but an idea. I neither think...
Page 290 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.