Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 31Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1865 Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... live and so struggle these random , like a jumbled pack of cards . All poor beasts , for their pittance of barley and hay , the streets are narrow , except where there are till they drop down dead . How they would wel- but few houses ...
... live and so struggle these random , like a jumbled pack of cards . All poor beasts , for their pittance of barley and hay , the streets are narrow , except where there are till they drop down dead . How they would wel- but few houses ...
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... live on the spot see in a lifetime . It might be effrontery to tell these Virginians , upon so brief an inspec- tion , that I knew more of their city and its re- sources than they did ; but I would even ven- ture something on that point ...
... live on the spot see in a lifetime . It might be effrontery to tell these Virginians , upon so brief an inspec- tion , that I knew more of their city and its re- sources than they did ; but I would even ven- ture something on that point ...
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... live in so many saloons , and do nothing from morn- ing till night , and from night till morning again , but drink fiery liquids and indulge in profane language . How can all these able - bodied men afford to be idle ? Who pays their ...
... live in so many saloons , and do nothing from morn- ing till night , and from night till morning again , but drink fiery liquids and indulge in profane language . How can all these able - bodied men afford to be idle ? Who pays their ...
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... live together with the greatest simplicity , since we are all from Khokand and Kashgar , and have among us no Bokhariot - no viper of that race . " Twenty - four in number , they were all wild men , but honest ; some so poor that they ...
... live together with the greatest simplicity , since we are all from Khokand and Kashgar , and have among us no Bokhariot - no viper of that race . " Twenty - four in number , they were all wild men , but honest ; some so poor that they ...
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... live . " This was acting his character faithfully , and the result was a great increase in popularity and a wonderful number of invitations to feasts . " My hair stands on end at the recollection how often I was forced to seat myself ...
... live . " This was acting his character faithfully , and the result was a great increase in popularity and a wonderful number of invitations to feasts . " My hair stands on end at the recollection how often I was forced to seat myself ...
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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 399 - I am a Jew. 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?
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 122 - HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. "GENERAL: — I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. "RE LEE, General. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL US GRANT.
Page 122 - 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.
Page 122 - ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL : I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. RE LEE, General. "Lieutenant-General US GRANT.
Page 202 - OH ! weep for the hour, When to Eveleen's bower The Lord of the Valley with false vows came ; The moon hid her light From the heavens that night, And wept behind her clouds o'er the maiden's shame. The clouds...
Page 225 - ... vanished. On lying down again, I saw it a second time, plainer, if possible, than before; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little paler, say five shades, than the other. I got up and the thing melted away and I went off, and in the excitement of the hour forgot all about it — nearly, but not quite, for the thing would once in a while come up, and give me a little pang, as though something uncomfortable had happened.
Page 60 - ... ecclesiastic; the churches and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant; the walls and fortifications of cities and towns; and so the havens and harbours, antiquities and ruins, libraries, colleges, disputations, and lectures, where any are ; shipping and navies ; houses and gardens of state and pleasure, near great cities; armories, arsenals, magazines...
Page 124 - The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, there to deposit their arms and public property in the State arsenal; and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of the State and Federal authority.