The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 49Century Company, 1894 - Literature |
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... once more the English : to seize a station on the Indian high- road as valuable as Gibraltar or Port Mahon , and to raise again high hopes of recovering , if not the colonial supremacy , at least the equal- ity among nations which was ...
... once more the English : to seize a station on the Indian high- road as valuable as Gibraltar or Port Mahon , and to raise again high hopes of recovering , if not the colonial supremacy , at least the equal- ity among nations which was ...
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... once cried , " for the share he had in uniting Corsica to France . " Paoli became his hero , and the fa- vorite subjects of his reading were the mighty deeds of men and peoples , especially in anti- quity . Such matter he found abundant ...
... once cried , " for the share he had in uniting Corsica to France . " Paoli became his hero , and the fa- vorite subjects of his reading were the mighty deeds of men and peoples , especially in anti- quity . Such matter he found abundant ...
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... once insisted , - nothing could turn him from his purpose ; for he possessed English tenacity , grafted upon Scotch originality , with a good deal of the strength of both races . While still a student he had once made a tour in Italy ...
... once insisted , - nothing could turn him from his purpose ; for he possessed English tenacity , grafted upon Scotch originality , with a good deal of the strength of both races . While still a student he had once made a tour in Italy ...
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... once more , bathed in cool star- showers , the queen of a tender dream . There sat the abbess in the only chair , stolid , righteous , imposing — the incarnation and rep- resentative of the ninety - and - nine who need no forgiveness ...
... once more , bathed in cool star- showers , the queen of a tender dream . There sat the abbess in the only chair , stolid , righteous , imposing — the incarnation and rep- resentative of the ninety - and - nine who need no forgiveness ...
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... once been occupied by Sir William Phips and his lady , and was known as " the old stone house on the faire greene lane of Boston town . " Did not every school - boy of Ad Boston know that Sir William was one of a rily of twenty - six ...
... once been occupied by Sir William Phips and his lady , and was known as " the old stone house on the faire greene lane of Boston town . " Did not every school - boy of Ad Boston know that Sir William was one of a rily of twenty - six ...
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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.