Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 52Harper's Magazine Company, 1876 |
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Page 30
... give me leave to tell you , Sir- Trueman . What ! Give you leave to tell me I know nothing at all about the matter ! I shall do no such thing , Sir . I'm not to be governed by your ipse dixit . Loveyet . I desire none of your musty ...
... give me leave to tell you , Sir- Trueman . What ! Give you leave to tell me I know nothing at all about the matter ! I shall do no such thing , Sir . I'm not to be governed by your ipse dixit . Loveyet . I desire none of your musty ...
Page 48
... give him all sorts of titles merely for his autograph ; even the Comte de Chambord might think it worth while to give him his forefinger , in token of a legitimate friendship , in return for the same favor ; and I don't think the Pope ...
... give him all sorts of titles merely for his autograph ; even the Comte de Chambord might think it worth while to give him his forefinger , in token of a legitimate friendship , in return for the same favor ; and I don't think the Pope ...
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... give up all hope of getting into society - real society -through Cyril's good offices . He had pro- cured invitations for Myra for a ball or two at houses of undoubted fashion , and the girl had attended them under the escort of a great ...
... give up all hope of getting into society - real society -through Cyril's good offices . He had pro- cured invitations for Myra for a ball or two at houses of undoubted fashion , and the girl had attended them under the escort of a great ...
Page 58
... give a few copies away . In- deed , such is my weakness , that I would sometimes rather give than sell . In the present instance you will do me the kind- ness to send a copy each to Mr. Charles Sumner , Mr. Hillard , Mr. Norton : but no ...
... give a few copies away . In- deed , such is my weakness , that I would sometimes rather give than sell . In the present instance you will do me the kind- ness to send a copy each to Mr. Charles Sumner , Mr. Hillard , Mr. Norton : but no ...
Page 59
... give all the cop- ies you sent me away . I dare say that you will not grudge me four or five copies more , to be sent at your convenience , of course . Let me hear from you at the same time . You can give me one of those frequent quar ...
... give all the cop- ies you sent me away . I dare say that you will not grudge me four or five copies more , to be sent at your convenience , of course . Let me hear from you at the same time . You can give me one of those frequent quar ...
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Popular passages
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...