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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... told me . Now I really don't consider myself fastidious on the subject of hotels . Having traveled in many different countries I have enjoyed an extensive experience in the way of accommodations , from my mother - earth to the foretop ...
... told me . Now I really don't consider myself fastidious on the subject of hotels . Having traveled in many different countries I have enjoyed an extensive experience in the way of accommodations , from my mother - earth to the foretop ...
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... told Vámbéry this was a mon- ster of cruelty , who denied water to a poor slave whom he had fed for two days upon salt - fish ; and while a basket which has held a man is too sacred to be destroyed , the life of man is so en- dangered ...
... told Vámbéry this was a mon- ster of cruelty , who denied water to a poor slave whom he had fed for two days upon salt - fish ; and while a basket which has held a man is too sacred to be destroyed , the life of man is so en- dangered ...
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... told us to lose no time in dismounting from the camels . These poor brutes knew well enough that it was the tebbad that was hurrying on ; uttering a loud cry , they fell on their knees , stretched their long necks along the ground , and ...
... told us to lose no time in dismounting from the camels . These poor brutes knew well enough that it was the tebbad that was hurrying on ; uttering a loud cry , they fell on their knees , stretched their long necks along the ground , and ...
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... told you he was content with his work , and the place God had given him to do it in . And he had been . That little black shop , where he had toiled so many honest years , why he had loved it , an old friend , with its cozy , homely ...
... told you he was content with his work , and the place God had given him to do it in . And he had been . That little black shop , where he had toiled so many honest years , why he had loved it , an old friend , with its cozy , homely ...
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... told him ; or the dews which had wept all night among the ferns . The day passed as if there were weights on the hours and the moments chained . Whispers of Pennington's disappearance found their way quickly from mouth to mouth . People ...
... told him ; or the dews which had wept all night among the ferns . The day passed as if there were weights on the hours and the moments chained . Whispers of Pennington's disappearance found their way quickly from mouth to mouth . People ...
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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.