Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 26; Volume 89Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1877 - American periodicals |
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... appeared immensely superior to that of her neighbor , and when the spirit of her people had been stirred by confederation . That opportunity was allowed to pass , and , in all probability , it will never re- turn . A movement in favor ...
... appeared immensely superior to that of her neighbor , and when the spirit of her people had been stirred by confederation . That opportunity was allowed to pass , and , in all probability , it will never re- turn . A movement in favor ...
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... appeared which , though as yet small in numbers , is full of zeal and fervor . The faith professed by this sect may be called the religion of the Great Pyramid , the chief article of their creed being the doctrine that that remarkable ...
... appeared which , though as yet small in numbers , is full of zeal and fervor . The faith professed by this sect may be called the religion of the Great Pyramid , the chief article of their creed being the doctrine that that remarkable ...
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... appeared by merest accident - is regarded by the pyra- midalists as a perfect triumph for their faith . They connect it with another coincidence , viz . that assuming the height determined in the way already indicated then it so happens ...
... appeared by merest accident - is regarded by the pyra- midalists as a perfect triumph for their faith . They connect it with another coincidence , viz . that assuming the height determined in the way already indicated then it so happens ...
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... appearance of a wine- merchant's element in the background . We will add only one more extract in reference to the flavor and odor of wines : - sentinels to watch the approaches to the ' The organs of taste and smell stand as stomach ...
... appearance of a wine- merchant's element in the background . We will add only one more extract in reference to the flavor and odor of wines : - sentinels to watch the approaches to the ' The organs of taste and smell stand as stomach ...
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... appeared , equipped with the arms of the dead Aga , and alone as she was invited . But the Turkish woman had thought prudence the better part of valor , and brought an armed champion with her , who charges her on horseback , She shot ...
... appeared , equipped with the arms of the dead Aga , and alone as she was invited . But the Turkish woman had thought prudence the better part of valor , and brought an armed champion with her , who charges her on horseback , She shot ...
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Page 17 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 91 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 99 - O that the armies indeed were arrayed ! O joy of the onset! Sound, thou Trumpet of God, come forth, Great Cause, to array us, King and leader appear, thy soldiers sorrowing seek thee. Would that the armies indeed were arrayed, O...
Page 274 - I still remember that the spinning of a top is a case of Kinetic Stability. I still remember that Emphyteusis is not a disease, nor Stillicide a crime. But though I would not willingly part with such scraps of science, I do not set the same store by them...
Page 368 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 40 - THEY rose to where their sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd by day and night Against the Turk ; whose inroad nowhere scales Their headlong passes, but his footstep fails, And red with blood the Crescent reels from fight Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone fight By thousands down the crags and thro
Page 193 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 10 - I think I can trace all the calamities of this country to the single source of our not having had steadily before our eyes a general, comprehensive, well-connected, and well-proportioned view of the whole of our dominions, and a just sense of their true bearings and relations.
Page 367 - I think .myself more fortunate than all my fellow-citizens in having the distinguished honor to be the first to stand in your Majesty's royal presence in a diplomatic character; and I shall esteem myself the happiest of men if I can be instrumental in recommending my country more and more to your Majesty's royal benevolence...
Page 277 - If he had looked pleased before, he had now to look both pleased and mystified. For my part, I justify this encouragement of smiling rather than tearful children ; I do not wish to pay for tears anywhere but upon the stage ; but I am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.