Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 110Scribner & Company, 1925 |
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Page 43
... later presented to the State . A small inn and community club - house were built . A year of gestation , and the baby village was born . Little houses appeared like a rash . As the big barn of the Middle West is a sign of prosperity ...
... later presented to the State . A small inn and community club - house were built . A year of gestation , and the baby village was born . Little houses appeared like a rash . As the big barn of the Middle West is a sign of prosperity ...
Page 44
... later comers , who have increas- ingly paid more for their land , face a greater handicap . These settlers tell you that income is not the whole story , that the advan- tages of the wholesome life make in contentment . A beautiful ...
... later comers , who have increas- ingly paid more for their land , face a greater handicap . These settlers tell you that income is not the whole story , that the advan- tages of the wholesome life make in contentment . A beautiful ...
Page 97
... later in New York he was the main insister for them . After the convention , the Demo- cratic National Committeeman of a Southern border State was talking with the Illinois " leader . " " Why did you drag the Klan fight into the conven ...
... later in New York he was the main insister for them . After the convention , the Demo- cratic National Committeeman of a Southern border State was talking with the Illinois " leader . " " Why did you drag the Klan fight into the conven ...
Page 102
... later on the point of Duse's relation to artists . Meanwhile something over half an hour had passed , and it seemed time , considering how fragile Duse appeared , that I should take my leave . This I did not know how to manage , since ...
... later on the point of Duse's relation to artists . Meanwhile something over half an hour had passed , and it seemed time , considering how fragile Duse appeared , that I should take my leave . This I did not know how to manage , since ...
Page 110
... Later , to be sure , he questioned his own re- sults , but that was largely because Schuster criticized his methods . Dr. Arctowski , a leading Polish clima- tologist , has likewise found many evidences that the sun - spots have a ...
... Later , to be sure , he questioned his own re- sults , but that was largely because Schuster criticized his methods . Dr. Arctowski , a leading Polish clima- tologist , has likewise found many evidences that the sun - spots have a ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.