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... side huge piles of earth and ore , hoisted out of the shafts or run out of the tunnels , and cast over the " dumps . " The hill - sides , for a distance of more than a mile , are perfectly honey - citement , avarice , lust , deviltry ...
... side huge piles of earth and ore , hoisted out of the shafts or run out of the tunnels , and cast over the " dumps . " The hill - sides , for a distance of more than a mile , are perfectly honey - citement , avarice , lust , deviltry ...
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... side , or a golden cloud that floated above and past him at the close of the busiest day ; he saw something more in a field of plumed and nodding grass than his neighbor's crop of hay and profits ; he liked to hear the tinkle of the ...
... side , or a golden cloud that floated above and past him at the close of the busiest day ; he saw something more in a field of plumed and nodding grass than his neighbor's crop of hay and profits ; he liked to hear the tinkle of the ...
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... side cast gray , cold shadows over him . I do not think he knew it . The flats with their stretch of unmown grass ... sides , their edges sharp and jagged . A rank undergrowth lined the chasm ; great pale ferns and large - leaved weeds ...
... side cast gray , cold shadows over him . I do not think he knew it . The flats with their stretch of unmown grass ... sides , their edges sharp and jagged . A rank undergrowth lined the chasm ; great pale ferns and large - leaved weeds ...
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... side by side , and so like that you could hardly tell them apart . The same round , solid face , the same substantial rosiness , the same big blue eyes and happy smile were under hat and bon- net . " I guess we had better just look in ...
... side by side , and so like that you could hardly tell them apart . The same round , solid face , the same substantial rosiness , the same big blue eyes and happy smile were under hat and bon- net . " I guess we had better just look in ...
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... side ) held a line on the Tennessee River , from Loudon to Kingston , possessing unusual natural advantages , and expressed the opinion that he could easily defeat Longstreet in any attempt he might make to cross the stream . Grant ...
... side ) held a line on the Tennessee River , from Loudon to Kingston , possessing unusual natural advantages , and expressed the opinion that he could easily defeat Longstreet in any attempt he might make to cross the stream . Grant ...
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Page 343 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 401 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 192 - GOD Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 401 - He hath disgraced me and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies! and what's his reason? I am a Jew ! Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Page 193 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 401 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 224 - It was just after my election in 1860, when the news had been coming in thick and fast all day and there had been a great
Page 122 - ... yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Sincerely hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc., "US GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
Page 290 - Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volleyed and thundered.
Page 230 - You say your husband is a religious man; tell him when you meet him, that I say I am not much of a judge of religion, but that, in my opinion, the religion that sets men to rebel and fight against their government, because, as they think, that government does not sufficiently help some men to eat their bread on the sweat of other men's faces, is not the sort of religion upon which people can get to heaven!