American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1858 |
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... standing beside him ; ' why , that , my dear Sir , is the Island of Barataria , which that prince of rulers , Sancho Panza , governed so ably in the reign of Don Quixote the First ! ' For this valuable piece of information , the cockney ...
... standing beside him ; ' why , that , my dear Sir , is the Island of Barataria , which that prince of rulers , Sancho Panza , governed so ably in the reign of Don Quixote the First ! ' For this valuable piece of information , the cockney ...
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... standing beside the grave of her whom you so deeply wronged . Prepare to meet thy God ! ' " I wronged her , it is true , ' faltered the wretch ; but , believe me , had respect unto her honor . ' I < " Are you speaking the truth ? ' ' I ...
... standing beside the grave of her whom you so deeply wronged . Prepare to meet thy God ! ' " I wronged her , it is true , ' faltered the wretch ; but , believe me , had respect unto her honor . ' I < " Are you speaking the truth ? ' ' I ...
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... stand up to it or die . He was the man it referred to . We agreed that the holders of his indorse- ment should have his property at once , at fair prices ; and since they could do no better than to take it , they must allow something ...
... stand up to it or die . He was the man it referred to . We agreed that the holders of his indorse- ment should have his property at once , at fair prices ; and since they could do no better than to take it , they must allow something ...
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... stand the test , and that she will carry herself through it triumphantly . You know , General , that there is such a thing as rising superior to circumstances . Other people are apt to judge us by our own standards . If we magnify our ...
... stand the test , and that she will carry herself through it triumphantly . You know , General , that there is such a thing as rising superior to circumstances . Other people are apt to judge us by our own standards . If we magnify our ...
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... stand With the sycamores hoary , Their heads have been covered by Autumn's haud With radiant glory . II . The rushes that grow by the river's brink Are bending lower , The meadows are brown and bare as when Left by the mower , The ...
... stand With the sycamores hoary , Their heads have been covered by Autumn's haud With radiant glory . II . The rushes that grow by the river's brink Are bending lower , The meadows are brown and bare as when Left by the mower , The ...
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Page 548 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 411 - Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Page 165 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 55 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Page 282 - But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 159 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 411 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings ! and ye would not...
Page 324 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Page 291 - Egypt's evil day, waved round the coast, up called a pitchy cloud of locusts, warping on the eastern wind that o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung like night and darkened all the land of Nile...
Page 205 - And is there nothing yet unsaid, Before the change appears? Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years.