The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Band 30Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1847 |
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... period , General Scott , having quietly made all his arrange- ments , while a constant shower of shot and shell were thrown at his army by the enemy , sent a flag of truce , with a summons for the immediate surrender of the city of Vera ...
... period , General Scott , having quietly made all his arrange- ments , while a constant shower of shot and shell were thrown at his army by the enemy , sent a flag of truce , with a summons for the immediate surrender of the city of Vera ...
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... period , men- tioned with surprise the fact that age , which brings serious thoughts to most men , seemed to bestow upon him more cheerfulness and hearty feeling . I speak of age , in this connection , only compara- tively ; for my ...
... period , men- tioned with surprise the fact that age , which brings serious thoughts to most men , seemed to bestow upon him more cheerfulness and hearty feeling . I speak of age , in this connection , only compara- tively ; for my ...
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... period but a soli- tary log - cabin of the white man stood on the sloping prairie at the edge of the stream ; and now the banks are whitened with dwell- ings , and the wheels of the grist - mill and the saw - mill revolve in the rapid ...
... period but a soli- tary log - cabin of the white man stood on the sloping prairie at the edge of the stream ; and now the banks are whitened with dwell- ings , and the wheels of the grist - mill and the saw - mill revolve in the rapid ...
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... period of sojourn have moved away , frequently come back again , and pass there the re- mainder of their lives . The manners of the inmates are precise , but being known to all , they are conformed to . For instance , if a person makes ...
... period of sojourn have moved away , frequently come back again , and pass there the re- mainder of their lives . The manners of the inmates are precise , but being known to all , they are conformed to . For instance , if a person makes ...
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... period of which we speak , that is , in the early part of the eighteenth century , that the reign of pastoral poetry began in good earnest . Whether it was owing to the fine translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Theocritus ' Idylls ...
... period of which we speak , that is , in the early part of the eighteenth century , that the reign of pastoral poetry began in good earnest . Whether it was owing to the fine translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Theocritus ' Idylls ...
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Seite 147 - And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also : go forth, and do so.
Seite 147 - And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?
Seite 394 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Seite 408 - One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. On this singular gorget was engraved in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—" Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.
Seite 409 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Seite 373 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Seite 149 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh; Hebrew 11:4} Cain was very wroth, the LORD said Why art thou wroth?
Seite 320 - Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these as to being the accident of an accident ? To all these noble Lords the language of the noble Duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself, but I do not fear to meet it single and alone.
Seite 85 - God of the dark and heavy deep ! The waves lie sleeping on the sands, Till the fierce trumpet of the storm Hath...
Seite 409 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.