The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 60Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 - American periodicals |
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... death . Still these latter dancings ' show rather a desperate effort to keep up her spirits than a proof of their exuberance , for as early as the beginning of June , Beaumont describes an interview with her , in which she spoke of ...
... death . Still these latter dancings ' show rather a desperate effort to keep up her spirits than a proof of their exuberance , for as early as the beginning of June , Beaumont describes an interview with her , in which she spoke of ...
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... death . She then discoursed to me of her indisposition ; and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days ; and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs . ' After remarking that he had never ...
... death . She then discoursed to me of her indisposition ; and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days ; and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs . ' After remarking that he had never ...
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... death , and who ( as librarian of the monastery of that name ) had great facilities for the careful research which his writings evinced , thus bears witness to this fact in the preface to his third book . ' Normans and English , ' says ...
... death , and who ( as librarian of the monastery of that name ) had great facilities for the careful research which his writings evinced , thus bears witness to this fact in the preface to his third book . ' Normans and English , ' says ...
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... death , Robert again broke out into open rebellion . Four years after , during which William experienced nothing but trouble and disquiet , he met with the retributive accident that caused his death . Exasperated by the coarse witticism ...
... death , Robert again broke out into open rebellion . Four years after , during which William experienced nothing but trouble and disquiet , he met with the retributive accident that caused his death . Exasperated by the coarse witticism ...
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... death and burial . For the way in which ' the sins of the fathers ' may be ' visited on the children , ' was forcibly illustrated by the death of his favorite , William Bufus , in the New Forest . ' It will be recollected that among the ...
... death and burial . For the way in which ' the sins of the fathers ' may be ' visited on the children , ' was forcibly illustrated by the death of his favorite , William Bufus , in the New Forest . ' It will be recollected that among the ...
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Page 435 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 434 - ... of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 357 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 446 - On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
Page 147 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; 3 till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 553 - It is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative writer of the present century who is entitled to be considered as a man of genius. He has wonderful poetical power, and he has the faculty, which hardly any other French novelist possesses, of drawing beautiful as well as striking pictures. Another feature for which Victor Hugo's book deserves high praise is Its perfect purity. Any one who reads the Bible and Shakspeare...
Page 31 - But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Page 145 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 9 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Page 434 - Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged, on our part, in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering...