The New England Magazine, Volume 28New England Magazine Company, 1903 - New England |
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... took its course over the calm sea , reaching England without " one cake of bread , nor any drink but a little vinegar left . " Though the expedition had failed in its most important object , and is " now shorn of much of its former ...
... took its course over the calm sea , reaching England without " one cake of bread , nor any drink but a little vinegar left . " Though the expedition had failed in its most important object , and is " now shorn of much of its former ...
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... took for an island and named New Holland . Five years later , Adrian Block in the Onrust sailed eastward from the Dutch set- tlement at Manhattan , explored Long Island Sound , and ascended the Housatonic and Connecticut Rivers . He ...
... took for an island and named New Holland . Five years later , Adrian Block in the Onrust sailed eastward from the Dutch set- tlement at Manhattan , explored Long Island Sound , and ascended the Housatonic and Connecticut Rivers . He ...
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... took off his cap and ran his fingers through his thick white hair till it stood out fiercely . " I never ud thought Hart Rob- erts the kin ' of feller ud treat a girl like that . Goin ' to Canady ! Well , well , when a man sets out to ...
... took off his cap and ran his fingers through his thick white hair till it stood out fiercely . " I never ud thought Hart Rob- erts the kin ' of feller ud treat a girl like that . Goin ' to Canady ! Well , well , when a man sets out to ...
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... took off his cap and bristled up his hair with his fingers . " What beats me is leavin ' ye alone . " She stopped the swing of the great wheel , but made no reply . " Well , I don't see uz nuthin ' kin hurt ye if ye stay right here in ...
... took off his cap and bristled up his hair with his fingers . " What beats me is leavin ' ye alone . " She stopped the swing of the great wheel , but made no reply . " Well , I don't see uz nuthin ' kin hurt ye if ye stay right here in ...
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... took vague , weird forms . She held her breath as she passed around them into the grow- ing gloom . The rising wind tugged viciously at her dress and whipped her loosened hair across her face . In the open places it drove the heavy ...
... took vague , weird forms . She held her breath as she passed around them into the grow- ing gloom . The rising wind tugged viciously at her dress and whipped her loosened hair across her face . In the open places it drove the heavy ...
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Page 112 - Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 112 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 267 - I look for the new Teacher, that shall follow so far those shining laws, that he shall see them come full circle; shall see their rounding complete grace; shall see the world to be the mirror of the soul; shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart; and shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science, with Beauty, and with Joy.
Page 335 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 266 - I SLEPT, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.
Page 112 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 265 - THOUGHT is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
Page 335 - Not so can it ever be in the hands of France : the impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character, placed in a point of eternal friction with us, and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth ; these circumstances render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable...
Page 266 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Page 327 - A Compleat Body of Divinity, in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism...