The Literary World, Volume 7S.R. Crocker, 1877 - Literature |
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... admirable clearness and force , which would please , even unallied with strong and wholesome thought . and sincere . They treat mainly of Christ , But the spirit of these sermons is very sweet holding him up in a light which must illumi ...
... admirable clearness and force , which would please , even unallied with strong and wholesome thought . and sincere . They treat mainly of Christ , But the spirit of these sermons is very sweet holding him up in a light which must illumi ...
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... admirably thus far , and we feel sure , if left to his own devices , will continue to give satisfaction . The new volume is weighty with fresh scientific information of general interest , — the chapters on Meteorology , General Phys ...
... admirably thus far , and we feel sure , if left to his own devices , will continue to give satisfaction . The new volume is weighty with fresh scientific information of general interest , — the chapters on Meteorology , General Phys ...
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... admirable ; but such a sentence as the wise Anna , " have no hope but to be mar- laws of value , as a value currency would be . this is not creditable to a writer of his pre - ried , and that is soon told ; no ideas but dress It costs ...
... admirable ; but such a sentence as the wise Anna , " have no hope but to be mar- laws of value , as a value currency would be . this is not creditable to a writer of his pre - ried , and that is soon told ; no ideas but dress It costs ...
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... admirably fitted to meet this want . Its reviews are able , clear in style , and lucid in treatment . Literary men ... admiration . There was a lauded magazine called the St. Nicholas . " large dinner - party at their house ; Johnson Now ...
... admirably fitted to meet this want . Its reviews are able , clear in style , and lucid in treatment . Literary men ... admiration . There was a lauded magazine called the St. Nicholas . " large dinner - party at their house ; Johnson Now ...
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... admiration almost as much as Mr. Tarbox has intrenched himself behind if we were reading of one of Homer's heroes . a formidable array of evidence , and has writ- Presuming our readers to be tolerably fa- ten with the special advantage ...
... admiration almost as much as Mr. Tarbox has intrenched himself behind if we were reading of one of Homer's heroes . a formidable array of evidence , and has writ- Presuming our readers to be tolerably fa- ten with the special advantage ...
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Page 149 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 149 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 149 - If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Page 136 - For this is the Great Story of the North, which should be to all 'our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been — a story too — then should it be to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us.
Page 149 - MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again.
Page 149 - I have lived more than a quarter of a century, here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington.
Page 42 - ... There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer showers To golden grain or mellow fruit Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
Page 55 - That it should come to this: But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 135 - It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as one gazed around; and the pure mountain air was most refreshing. All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.
Page 21 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.