McClure's Magazine ..., Volume 12S. S. McClure, Limited, 1899 |
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... MOVING ON THE . OUTLINES OF MY ARCTIC CAMPAIGN . LIEUTENANT ROBERT E. PEARY , U.S.N. Illustrated ......... 417 RAJA SINGH AND OTHER ELEPHANTS . W. A. FRASER . Illustrated ....... RISING WOLF - GHOST DANCER . HAMLIN GARLAND . Illustrated ...
... MOVING ON THE . OUTLINES OF MY ARCTIC CAMPAIGN . LIEUTENANT ROBERT E. PEARY , U.S.N. Illustrated ......... 417 RAJA SINGH AND OTHER ELEPHANTS . W. A. FRASER . Illustrated ....... RISING WOLF - GHOST DANCER . HAMLIN GARLAND . Illustrated ...
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... moving . When The Observatory H the horses fall down , which they do at periodic intervals and in regular succession , his voice lifts them , and he departs into the neighborhood to borrow a piece of rope and mend the harness . Then you ...
... moving . When The Observatory H the horses fall down , which they do at periodic intervals and in regular succession , his voice lifts them , and he departs into the neighborhood to borrow a piece of rope and mend the harness . Then you ...
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... move much like rocking- horses . They easily carry travelers of all weights , however , and also drag the donkey ... moving lava flow , and have become an integral part of an eruption , as it were . It is proceeding , inch by inch ...
... move much like rocking- horses . They easily carry travelers of all weights , however , and also drag the donkey ... moving lava flow , and have become an integral part of an eruption , as it were . It is proceeding , inch by inch ...
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... move about with your eyes shut . The churning , rumbling , and splashing of a molten white - hot lake 600 feet below you sounds constantly . It is the most horrible of all noises . Now and then a red glare flashes from below on the ...
... move about with your eyes shut . The churning , rumbling , and splashing of a molten white - hot lake 600 feet below you sounds constantly . It is the most horrible of all noises . Now and then a red glare flashes from below on the ...
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... move things laterally , we have no rule to measure him by . I saw a big fellow tested once in the Zoological Gar- dens in Calcutta . It was not a scientific investigation ; it was not the result of an argument — it was simply done to ...
... move things laterally , we have no rule to measure him by . I saw a big fellow tested once in the Zoological Gar- dens in Calcutta . It was not a scientific investigation ; it was not the result of an argument — it was simply done to ...
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Page 263 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 525 - We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 261 - I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 169 - My friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
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Page 261 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.
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Page 324 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 262 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.