Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 52Harper's Magazine Company, 1876 |
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... night . Below us the chimes rang out , sweetly telling the hour . " Nine o'clock , and a - all's well , " chanted the watch- man who keeps guard in the tower all night ; and the re- turning cry answered him , chanted by the patrol from ...
... night . Below us the chimes rang out , sweetly telling the hour . " Nine o'clock , and a - all's well , " chanted the watch- man who keeps guard in the tower all night ; and the re- turning cry answered him , chanted by the patrol from ...
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... night for the attack . In the morning they sent out fifty scouts , but Wade Hampton and his dragoons met them , and drove them helter - skelter back to the fort , from whose sally - port there presently issued forth a body of cavalry to ...
... night for the attack . In the morning they sent out fifty scouts , but Wade Hampton and his dragoons met them , and drove them helter - skelter back to the fort , from whose sally - port there presently issued forth a body of cavalry to ...
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... night , and the successes gained by his extraordi- nary swiftness and daring seemed marvel- ous alike to friend and to foe . He selected young men for his band , generally from his own neighbors of French descent ; he lived in the ...
... night , and the successes gained by his extraordi- nary swiftness and daring seemed marvel- ous alike to friend and to foe . He selected young men for his band , generally from his own neighbors of French descent ; he lived in the ...
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... night for Teheran , and the sooner I can get him off , the better . " The Baroness looked at her illustrious visitor with an admiration even greater than before . Her mind reverted to his august ancestor in the Arabian Nights , who was ...
... night for Teheran , and the sooner I can get him off , the better . " The Baroness looked at her illustrious visitor with an admiration even greater than before . Her mind reverted to his august ancestor in the Arabian Nights , who was ...
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... night , November 25 , 1852 , " in which he re- fers to his own writings , and copies a charm- ing song : " Your letter , announcing the arrival of the little preface , reached me last night . I shall look out for the books in about ...
... night , November 25 , 1852 , " in which he re- fers to his own writings , and copies a charm- ing song : " Your letter , announcing the arrival of the little preface , reached me last night . I shall look out for the books in about ...
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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...