Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 52Harper's Magazine Company, 1876 |
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... effect . into an inane respectability . The good , frugal , steady - going , tax - paying citizen , who lays in his coal in June and buys a whole pig in December , would subdue the world to a vast monotonous prosperity , crushing ...
... effect . into an inane respectability . The good , frugal , steady - going , tax - paying citizen , who lays in his coal in June and buys a whole pig in December , would subdue the world to a vast monotonous prosperity , crushing ...
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... effect as to endanger the solvency of the city . They stole more like kings and emperors than like common thieves , and the annual festival given by them at the Academy of Music called to mind the reckless profusion of Louis XIV . when ...
... effect as to endanger the solvency of the city . They stole more like kings and emperors than like common thieves , and the annual festival given by them at the Academy of Music called to mind the reckless profusion of Louis XIV . when ...
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... effect the intended measurements upon these maps . Here was presented a new mechanical problem of pe- culiar difficulty . No known micrometric ap- paratus was adapted either in form or in di- mensions to effect these measurements . Mr ...
... effect the intended measurements upon these maps . Here was presented a new mechanical problem of pe- culiar difficulty . No known micrometric ap- paratus was adapted either in form or in di- mensions to effect these measurements . Mr ...
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... effect of perspective . To Pro- omers is due the credit of having first cor- fessor Denison Olmsted , of New Haven , be- rectly interpreted the phenomena presented longs the credit of having first pointed out by the frequent intruders ...
... effect of perspective . To Pro- omers is due the credit of having first cor- fessor Denison Olmsted , of New Haven , be- rectly interpreted the phenomena presented longs the credit of having first pointed out by the frequent intruders ...
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... effect of the sun's unequal action upon their iancy that of the 13th of the same month different members , so that when drawn into in 1833. A German astronomer , Professor our system from the regions of space , they Klinkerfues , at ...
... effect of the sun's unequal action upon their iancy that of the 13th of the same month different members , so that when drawn into in 1833. A German astronomer , Professor our system from the regions of space , they Klinkerfues , at ...
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Page 39 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 75 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 46 - And every parish shall maintain a tithe pig metropolitan." Baxter beginning to speak again, Jefferies reviled him; "Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.
Page 406 - They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that great Being who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything except to meditate on Him...
Page 75 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Page 406 - Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything except to meditate on him — that she expects after a while to be received up where he is, to be raised up out of the world and caught up into heaven ; being assured that he loves her too well to let her remain at a distance from him always.
Page 69 - ... they were ; nor was there one old officer that had belonged to it, or knew where our Princes had used to be interred. At last there was a fellow of the town who undertook to tell them the place where, he said, ' there was a vault in which King Harry the Eighth and Queen Jane Seymour were interred.
Page 141 - Who that sees the meanness of our politics, but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud, and for ever safe ; that he was laid sweet in his grave, the hope of humanity not yet subjugated in him...
Page 408 - Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
Page 472 - As the primary step, therefore, to our advancement in all that has marked our progress in the past century, I suggest for your earnest consideration, and most earnestly recommend it, that a constitutional amendment be submitted to the legislatures of the several States for ratification, making it the duty of each of the several States to establish and forever maintain free public schools...