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There's a lady in the house now , but I don't think she intends to stay very long . " " Who is it ? " asked Miss Stull quickly . " It is Miss Armatt , the young lady who is staying with Mrs. Justin . " 66 Oh , indeed !
There's a lady in the house now , but I don't think she intends to stay very long . " " Who is it ? " asked Miss Stull quickly . " It is Miss Armatt , the young lady who is staying with Mrs. Justin . " 66 Oh , indeed !
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Presently , however , he recognized the young lady whom he had seen at the Bullripple farm , and in regard to whom he had made inquiries of Mrs. People . " That , " said he , " is a daughter of J. Weatherby Stull .
Presently , however , he recognized the young lady whom he had seen at the Bullripple farm , and in regard to whom he had made inquiries of Mrs. People . " That , " said he , " is a daughter of J. Weatherby Stull .
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He could not but admit to himself that while he had made upon the mind of this young lady quite as forcible an impression of the value of worthy male companionship as he had expected to make , that impression had not produced the result ...
He could not but admit to himself that while he had made upon the mind of this young lady quite as forcible an impression of the value of worthy male companionship as he had expected to make , that impression had not produced the result ...
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Old squaws and young children dance until they can stand no longer , and cease from exhaustion and fatigue ; a ces- sation of but a few minutes and they are up and at it again . Their medicine dances take place in cases of sickness and ...
Old squaws and young children dance until they can stand no longer , and cease from exhaustion and fatigue ; a ces- sation of but a few minutes and they are up and at it again . Their medicine dances take place in cases of sickness and ...
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But our schoolmaster had named his school the Irving Institute , and had persuaded Mr. Irving , out of his abounding good nature and liking for young folks , to visit the school occasionally at " Commencement " time , and give out the ...
But our schoolmaster had named his school the Irving Institute , and had persuaded Mr. Irving , out of his abounding good nature and liking for young folks , to visit the school occasionally at " Commencement " time , and give out the ...
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Page 13 - 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 388 - 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 388 - 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 401 - 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 526 - 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 221 - 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 392 - 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 392 - 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 110 - 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 161 - 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.
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| Title | The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 34 Volumes 351-367 of American periodical series, 1850-1900 |
| Editors | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder |
| Publisher | Century Company, 1887 |
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