The Ladies' Repository, Volume 27L. Swormstedt and J.H. Power, 1867 |
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... believe how oblivious she is to new fashions . " How do you like waterfalls ? " said I to her last Spring . " I like them very much , " she replied . ' Do you ? " said I , surprised , " which kind ? " " O every kind , " she replied ...
... believe how oblivious she is to new fashions . " How do you like waterfalls ? " said I to her last Spring . " I like them very much , " she replied . ' Do you ? " said I , surprised , " which kind ? " " O every kind , " she replied ...
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... believe them placed there solely as a matter of art . Perhaps they were the play of fancy of a timid monarch , who would here surround himself with the victorious and consoling consciousness of cannon - balls , which seem rather as if ...
... believe them placed there solely as a matter of art . Perhaps they were the play of fancy of a timid monarch , who would here surround himself with the victorious and consoling consciousness of cannon - balls , which seem rather as if ...
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... believe , my dear sir , it is well we do not , for what would become of that poor lamb's mirth , did he know to - morrow would see him bleed ! Even the anticipation of evil imbitters the life of many : how miserable must be the ...
... believe , my dear sir , it is well we do not , for what would become of that poor lamb's mirth , did he know to - morrow would see him bleed ! Even the anticipation of evil imbitters the life of many : how miserable must be the ...
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... believe I like it . " " You are not merry to - night , " said Mrs. Holmes . " I suppose , Miss Jennie , you think yourself the most afflicted person in the wide world . Sit down and let me tell you a story . " She sank listlessly upon a ...
... believe I like it . " " You are not merry to - night , " said Mrs. Holmes . " I suppose , Miss Jennie , you think yourself the most afflicted person in the wide world . Sit down and let me tell you a story . " She sank listlessly upon a ...
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... believe that she is proud of her brave child , although she thinks it nothing remarkable that he should have done his duty . It must not be thought that the beauty of a life depends upon its outward circumstances . Every life is ...
... believe that she is proud of her brave child , although she thinks it nothing remarkable that he should have done his duty . It must not be thought that the beauty of a life depends upon its outward circumstances . Every life is ...
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Page 187 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 98 - True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Page 391 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 289 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 289 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 437 - Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you ? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ ? For he knew that for envy they had delivered Him.
Page 12 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 256 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest a.im : Perhaps " Dundee's" wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive
Page 289 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Page 288 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.