The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 34Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1887 - American literature |
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... position which would be possible to no other than an American spinster . She is not emancipated , or peculiar , or anything that is unbecoming , but sits by her tea - table like Deborah of old under her palm tree ; from this position ...
... position which would be possible to no other than an American spinster . She is not emancipated , or peculiar , or anything that is unbecoming , but sits by her tea - table like Deborah of old under her palm tree ; from this position ...
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... position the evening wind came fresh and cool upon them . Gay's dress was thin , and Stratford , without remark upon the subject , stooped forward , and drew from under the seat a light woolen lap - robe which had hitherto been unneeded ...
... position the evening wind came fresh and cool upon them . Gay's dress was thin , and Stratford , without remark upon the subject , stooped forward , and drew from under the seat a light woolen lap - robe which had hitherto been unneeded ...
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... . Something of Irving's literary position in New York at that time was owing , no doubt , to the grudge that existed against him in the minds of the descendants of the early Dutch settlers , WASHINGTON IRVING AT HOME . 55.
... . Something of Irving's literary position in New York at that time was owing , no doubt , to the grudge that existed against him in the minds of the descendants of the early Dutch settlers , WASHINGTON IRVING AT HOME . 55.
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... position . The flesh of lean persons has more water , and that of fat persons more fat , in pro- portion to the whole weight . A lean man may gain in weight without corresponding gain of muscle or other protein compounds . The store of ...
... position . The flesh of lean persons has more water , and that of fat persons more fat , in pro- portion to the whole weight . A lean man may gain in weight without corresponding gain of muscle or other protein compounds . The store of ...
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... position speeches . Jules Favre , after 1866 , — that is to say , after a disruption in the national body of Germany , - had considered France entitled to an " indemnification , " in the way of a cession of Germany territory ! So did ...
... position speeches . Jules Favre , after 1866 , — that is to say , after a disruption in the national body of Germany , - had considered France entitled to an " indemnification , " in the way of a cession of Germany territory ! So did ...
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Page 11 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 386 - We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 386 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will...
Page 399 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 524 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Page 219 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 390 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 390 - No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.
Page 108 - Resolved, That we recognize the right of the people of all the territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other states.
Page 159 - He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.