Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 22Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1881 - American literature |
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Page 72
... tion of them ever crosses the bar at Sandy Hook . In one form or another , nearly the whole contribution - and it is enormous - is deposited , consumed by fishes , or evaporated between Sing Sing and Throgg's Neck on the north , and ...
... tion of them ever crosses the bar at Sandy Hook . In one form or another , nearly the whole contribution - and it is enormous - is deposited , consumed by fishes , or evaporated between Sing Sing and Throgg's Neck on the north , and ...
Page 75
... tion . Its undetected agency in producing disease has probably been very great . Under the water - closet , for the protection of the ceilings below , it is a common prac- tice to introduce a " safe " -a leaden tray to receive leakage ...
... tion . Its undetected agency in producing disease has probably been very great . Under the water - closet , for the protection of the ceilings below , it is a common prac- tice to introduce a " safe " -a leaden tray to receive leakage ...
Page 90
... tion . His talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson : " If his pistol missed fire he would knock you down with the butt - end . " Mere intellectual partisanship wearies him ; he detects in an instant if a man stands for any ...
... tion . His talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson : " If his pistol missed fire he would knock you down with the butt - end . " Mere intellectual partisanship wearies him ; he detects in an instant if a man stands for any ...
Page 92
... tion in England has such a feeling been aroused in regard to the death of a man of letters as that which was felt in London when the announcement was made that Mr. Carlyle's condition was hopeless , or , as our simpler forefathers would ...
... tion in England has such a feeling been aroused in regard to the death of a man of letters as that which was felt in London when the announcement was made that Mr. Carlyle's condition was hopeless , or , as our simpler forefathers would ...
Page 95
... tion ; his eyes and his brain are generously content to filter the foreign presentment into a familiar one for him without insisting on a literal and grammatical version . But when he comes , pen in hand , to undertake the process of ...
... tion ; his eyes and his brain are generously content to filter the foreign presentment into a familiar one for him without insisting on a literal and grammatical version . But when he comes , pen in hand , to undertake the process of ...
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