Scribner's Magazine, Volume 14Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan Charles Scribners Sons, 1893 - American periodicals |
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Page 11
... give a list which there is no virtue in the axe , in this day of metal shrouds and back - stays , to remedy ? That the average British merchant sailor was ever in any century the ruf- fian Fielding would have us believe , I doubt ; that ...
... give a list which there is no virtue in the axe , in this day of metal shrouds and back - stays , to remedy ? That the average British merchant sailor was ever in any century the ruf- fian Fielding would have us believe , I doubt ; that ...
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... give expression to a calling that for centuries has been practically voice- less on the forecastle side of it . A young apprentice bound to a re- spectable line , and despatched in a ship commanded by a captain who respects himself and ...
... give expression to a calling that for centuries has been practically voice- less on the forecastle side of it . A young apprentice bound to a re- spectable line , and despatched in a ship commanded by a captain who respects himself and ...
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... give their consent to my removal . The agents of the Christian Commis- sion had hung upon the wall of the tent facing me a calendar , or scroll , underneath each date of which were inscribed in large type numbers of texts or passages of ...
... give their consent to my removal . The agents of the Christian Commis- sion had hung upon the wall of the tent facing me a calendar , or scroll , underneath each date of which were inscribed in large type numbers of texts or passages of ...
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... give back to me a sound body , free from the remembrance even of sufferings past , and the immi- nence of those that must necessarily embitter all the years to come , I should have indignantly spurned the offer , such was the effect ...
... give back to me a sound body , free from the remembrance even of sufferings past , and the immi- nence of those that must necessarily embitter all the years to come , I should have indignantly spurned the offer , such was the effect ...
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... give your consent to his playing foot - ball ? she asked , tragically . " I understand that it is & terribly rough and danger- ous game . " " I give my consent ? This is mon- strous , Josephine , monstrous . I did not wish to be a ...
... give your consent to his playing foot - ball ? she asked , tragically . " I understand that it is & terribly rough and danger- ous game . " " I give my consent ? This is mon- strous , Josephine , monstrous . I did not wish to be a ...
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Page 28 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 495 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.
Page 282 - Would you not pay a pretty fine to be able to cancel some of them ? Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages ! Oh, the cares, the ennui, the squabbles, the repetitions, the old conversations over and over again ! But now and again a kind thought is recalled, and now and again a dear memory. Yet a few chapters more, and then the last : after which, behold Finis itself come to an end, and the Infinite begun.
Page 131 - Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Page 341 - Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows. West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain ; and away to the northward Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains...
Page 275 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 381 - A sly sinner, creeping along the very edges of the walks, getting behind benches : one hand in his bosom, the other held up to his chin, as if to keep it in its place : afraid of being seen, as a thief of detection.
Page 438 - The man of letters must make up his mind that in the United States the fate of a book is in the hands of the women. It is the women with us who have the most leisure, and they read the most books.
Page 700 - ... are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.