Some Makers of American LiteratureMarshall Jones Company, 1923 - 187 Seiten |
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... friends in Detroit , and had stayed with them three days , I told them that I thought we must return to New York that afternoon . In the manner of American hospitality , they besought us to remain with them longer ; and while we were ...
... friends in Detroit , and had stayed with them three days , I told them that I thought we must return to New York that afternoon . In the manner of American hospitality , they besought us to remain with them longer ; and while we were ...
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... friend concerning Jesus of Nazareth . He will not impute this to imperti- nence or improper curiosity , in one , who for so many years has continued to love , estimate , and reverence his abilities and literary character , with an ...
... friend concerning Jesus of Nazareth . He will not impute this to imperti- nence or improper curiosity , in one , who for so many years has continued to love , estimate , and reverence his abilities and literary character , with an ...
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... friend .. . You have an excellent artist lately arrived . If he will undertake to make one for you , I shall cheerfully pay the expense ; but he must not delay setting about it , or I may slip through his fingers , for I am now in my ...
... friend .. . You have an excellent artist lately arrived . If he will undertake to make one for you , I shall cheerfully pay the expense ; but he must not delay setting about it , or I may slip through his fingers , for I am now in my ...
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... friends . Instead of committing suicide , he sought work . As one walks along a London street today , and sees the tablet on a certain building , commemorating the fact that Benjamin Franklin once lodged there , one can- not repress a ...
... friends . Instead of committing suicide , he sought work . As one walks along a London street today , and sees the tablet on a certain building , commemorating the fact that Benjamin Franklin once lodged there , one can- not repress a ...
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... friend than Franklin ; during the progress of the conflict , England had no more formidable or dangerous foe . It is often said that his life shows what can be accomplished by Industry . Such a statement is very wide of the mark ...
... friend than Franklin ; during the progress of the conflict , England had no more formidable or dangerous foe . It is often said that his life shows what can be accomplished by Industry . Such a statement is very wide of the mark ...
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able American appeared artist asked attacked attitude became become believe born called cause character Cooper course criticism Edwards Emerson England English expression eyes face fact feel felt followed Franklin friends gave genius give hand happy Hawthorne hear heart hope human humour idea ideal imagination individual inspired interesting knew less letter Lincoln literary literature live looked Mark Twain matter means mind moral natural never novel once original perhaps person Pilot poems political practical published readers reason received regarded remember representative seems Senator sense side slavery soul speech stand story style talk thing thought tion took true turn Union universal Webster whole wish writing written wrote
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Seite 92 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Seite 11 - They say there is a young lady in [New Haven] who is beloved of that Great Being, who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this Great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight...
Seite 159 - Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
Seite 125 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Seite 104 - This claims to be called a haunted chamber, for thousands upon thousands of visions have appeared to me in it; and some few of them have become visible to the world. If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here...
Seite 49 - Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blasts of adversity.
Seite 157 - BURLY, dozing humble-bee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for Porto Rique, Far-off heats through seas to seek; I will follow thee alone, Thou animated torrid zone! Zigzag steerer, desert cheerer, Let me chase thy waving lines; Keep me nearer, me thy hearer, Singing over shrubs and vines. Insect lover of the sun, Joy of thy dominion! Sailor of the atmosphere...
Seite 173 - Looky here, Jim; does a cat talk like we do?" "No, a cat don't." "Well, does a cow?" "No, a cow don't, nuther." "Does a cat talk like a cow, or a cow talk like a cat?
Seite 91 - If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not, now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Seite 92 - I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, every-where, could be free.