The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 49Century Company, 1894 - Literature |
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... minds . Why ? No thinking man can help asking the little question which grows great in the unanswering silence that ... mind - All this is not intended as an apology for what the young nun Maria Addolorata after- ward did , though much ...
... minds . Why ? No thinking man can help asking the little question which grows great in the unanswering silence that ... mind - All this is not intended as an apology for what the young nun Maria Addolorata after- ward did , though much ...
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... mind seemed wandering . " We ' re two fools , " he added encourag- ingly . " A thing that will not be of much ac- count ten years from now is of little account now ; but prudence is becoming at all times . " This expression of vague ...
... mind seemed wandering . " We ' re two fools , " he added encourag- ingly . " A thing that will not be of much ac- count ten years from now is of little account now ; but prudence is becoming at all times . " This expression of vague ...
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... mind on seeing a feline object partly open the un- latched door and look inquiringly into the room . " Scat ! " he thundered . The cat obeyed . TEN years have passed . The old triangular- wall house is dark now . Captain Gideon and his ...
... mind on seeing a feline object partly open the un- latched door and look inquiringly into the room . " Scat ! " he thundered . The cat obeyed . TEN years have passed . The old triangular- wall house is dark now . Captain Gideon and his ...
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... mind greatly exaggerated . But it is no doubt a city of many odors , strange and vari- ous . The houses being generally open to the streets for almost their whole front , and the greater part of the town being roofed in , va- pors from ...
... mind greatly exaggerated . But it is no doubt a city of many odors , strange and vari- ous . The houses being generally open to the streets for almost their whole front , and the greater part of the town being roofed in , va- pors from ...
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... mind to working on many things that did n't occur to me before I was out of leading - strings . I used to take my mother's views as gospel ; now I see I have a right to my own . I believe every woman's life is given to her for her very ...
... mind to working on many things that did n't occur to me before I was out of leading - strings . I used to take my mother's views as gospel ; now I see I have a right to my own . I believe every woman's life is given to her for her very ...
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Page 569 - Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 425 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 468 - ... the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul.
Page 509 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 426 - Department, and was to the effect that the army had been withdrawn from the south side of the Rappahannock, and was then " safely encamped " in its former position. The appearance of the President, as I read aloud these fateful words, was piteous. Never, as long as I knew him, did he seem to be so broken, so dispirited, and so ghostlike. Clasping his hands behind his back, he walked up and down the room, saying, "My God! my God! What will the country say...
Page 433 - Green be the graves where her martyrs are lying! Shroudless and tombless they sunk to their rest, While o'er their ashes the starry fold flying Wraps the proud eagle they roused from his nest...
Page 495 - Work thou for pleasure; paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve. Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.
Page 131 - I long ago made up my mind that if anybody wants to kill me, he will do it. If I wore a shirt of mail and kept myself surrounded by a body-guard, it would be all the same. There are a thousand ways of getting at a man if it is desirable that he should be killed. Besides, in this case, it seems to me, the man who would come after me would be just as objectionable to my enemies — if I have any.
Page 225 - They then began to provide and send home for Gospel Ministers, and largely contributed for their maintenance; But Virginia savoring not handsomely in England, very few of good conversation would adventure thither, (as thinking it a place wherein surely the fear of God was not), yet many came, such as wore Black Coats, and could babble in a Pulpit, roar in a Tavern, exact from their Parishioners and rather by their dissoluteness destroy than feed their Flocks.
Page 74 - A sense of unspeakable security is in me this moment, on account of your having understood the book. I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.