United States Magazine of Science, Art, Manufactures, Agriculture, Commerce, and Trade, Volume 4H.C.B. Cowell and Clara Dixon Davidson, 1857 |
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... thought that a great library should be of important facts relative to the topography founded at Washington , and all the money ex- of different parts of the country , particularly pended on it . Others considered a museum the of the ...
... thought that a great library should be of important facts relative to the topography founded at Washington , and all the money ex- of different parts of the country , particularly pended on it . Others considered a museum the of the ...
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... thought of the morality of this practice none can fail to perceive that it exhibits a state which is generally thought to prevail in this community , of things entirely different from the gross licentiousness and which , were it the ...
... thought of the morality of this practice none can fail to perceive that it exhibits a state which is generally thought to prevail in this community , of things entirely different from the gross licentiousness and which , were it the ...
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... thought it too full at the end ; but taken in profile , and in connection with the rest of my face , the effect is ... thoughts ; hence she will not be moved out of her chosen path . She has taken it with a dread conviction that she must ...
... thought it too full at the end ; but taken in profile , and in connection with the rest of my face , the effect is ... thoughts ; hence she will not be moved out of her chosen path . She has taken it with a dread conviction that she must ...
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... thought and reflection great , so that she was in no hurry to contract a relation from mere motives of interest . She had already learned contempt for the way in which French marriages are usually managed , and no less contempt for the ...
... thought and reflection great , so that she was in no hurry to contract a relation from mere motives of interest . She had already learned contempt for the way in which French marriages are usually managed , and no less contempt for the ...
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... thought was the needed one . The next year the Constitutional Assembly gave way to the Legislative , and now we find the Gironde party coming into power ; and in March Roland became Minister of the Interior . The splendid house fitted ...
... thought was the needed one . The next year the Constitutional Assembly gave way to the Legislative , and now we find the Gironde party coming into power ; and in March Roland became Minister of the Interior . The splendid house fitted ...
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Page 299 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
Page 514 - Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 7 - Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respectiveoffices; three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives...
Page 269 - We are now," he continued, in that particularizing manner which distinguished him — " we are now close upon the Norwegian coast — in the sixty-eighth degree of latitude — in the great province of Nordland — and in the dreary district of Lofoden. The mountain upon whose top we sit is Helseggen, the Cloudy. Now raise yourself up a little higher — hold on to the grass if you feel giddy — so — and look out, beyond the belt of vapour beneath us, into the sea.
Page 162 - Pleiades soon melted together; but the bright constellations of the west and north remained unchanged. Steadily the wondrous transfiguration went on. Hands of angels, hidden from mortal eyes, shifted the scenery of the heavens ; the glories of night dissolved into the glories of the dawn. The blue sky now turned more softly gray; the great watch-stars shut up their holy eyes; the east began to kindle.
Page 330 - ... admiration of the world. And all here assembled, whether belonging to public life or to private life, with hearts devoutly thankful to Almighty God for the preservation of the liberty and happiness of the country, unite in sincere and fervent prayers that this deposit, and the walls and arches, the domes and towers, the columns and entablatures, now to be erected over it, may endure forever! "GOD SAVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! "DANIEL WEBSTER, "Secretary of State of the United States.
Page 265 - For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE; And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE...
Page 269 - I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.
Page 217 - That murmurs from his pumpkin-leaf trombone, Conspire to teach the boy. To these succeed His bow, his arrow of a feathered reed, His wind-mill, raised the passing breeze to win, His water-wheel, that turns upon a pin ; Or, if his father lives upon the shore, You'll see his ship, beam ends upon the floor, Full rigged, with raking masts and timbers staunch, And waiting, near the wash-tub, for a launch.
Page 269 - Nothing would have tempted me to within half a dozen yards of its brink. In truth so deeply was I excited by the perilous position of my companion, that I fell at full length upon the ground, clung to the shrubs around me, and dared not even glance upward at the sky — while I struggled in vain to divest myself of the idea that the very foundations of the mountain were in danger from the fury of the winds. It was long before I could reason myself into sufficient courage to sit up and look out into...