The Century: A Popular Quarterly, Volume 110 |
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... patches of woodland along the road letters to friends at home , but after a heavy , mysterious silence . several months the replies began to Now , however , he began thinking come with less and less frequency . of something else .
... patches of woodland along the road letters to friends at home , but after a heavy , mysterious silence . several months the replies began to Now , however , he began thinking come with less and less frequency . of something else .
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He lawyer , but with less self - assurance , is so busy talking that he has not the and with less self - interest in the secur- time to learn the things he is talking ing of a favorable outcome . For even about .
He lawyer , but with less self - assurance , is so busy talking that he has not the and with less self - interest in the secur- time to learn the things he is talking ing of a favorable outcome . For even about .
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... and that Cortes mathematical clearness why I for one conquered Mexico between 1519 and SO confidently look for this result . 1522. If we had painted pictures of Perhaps some teacher less ignorant of their cruel and ambitious ...
... and that Cortes mathematical clearness why I for one conquered Mexico between 1519 and SO confidently look for this result . 1522. If we had painted pictures of Perhaps some teacher less ignorant of their cruel and ambitious ...
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... look upon this possibility , felchildren of future generations will pre- low - adults , without the fear clutching at serve any , even the newest , of the our vitals more or less , lest these riches school methods we use to - day .
... look upon this possibility , felchildren of future generations will pre- low - adults , without the fear clutching at serve any , even the newest , of the our vitals more or less , lest these riches school methods we use to - day .
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None the less , those thought about it , they had settled against whom it is leveled must not down , with more or less vague under- tire of repeating that it is of small imstanding about it , into acceptance of port whether we call ...
None the less , those thought about it , they had settled against whom it is leveled must not down , with more or less vague under- tire of repeating that it is of small imstanding about it , into acceptance of port whether we call ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Century: A Popular Quarterly, Volume 110 |
| Editors | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder |
| Publisher | Century Company, 1925 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Sep 2006 |
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