Soundings from the AtlanticTicknor and Fields, 1864 - 468 من الصفحات This volume is a compilation of articles, with the exception of the last, published originally in the Atlantic monthly. |
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... tion can ask for . - Another great fact came to the surface , and is coming up every day in new shapes , that we are one people . It is easy to say that a man is a man in Maine or Minnesota , but not so easy to feel it , all through our ...
... tion can ask for . - Another great fact came to the surface , and is coming up every day in new shapes , that we are one people . It is easy to say that a man is a man in Maine or Minnesota , but not so easy to feel it , all through our ...
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... himself . We cannot fail to observe how the mind brings together the scenes of to - day and those of the old Revolu- tion . We shut up eighty years into each other like the joints of a pocket - telescope . When 20 BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER .
... himself . We cannot fail to observe how the mind brings together the scenes of to - day and those of the old Revolu- tion . We shut up eighty years into each other like the joints of a pocket - telescope . When 20 BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER .
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... tion from being in my company , let me tell him that I learned a lesson from his active benevolence . I could , however , have wished to hear him laugh once before we parted , perhaps forever . He did not , to the best of my recol ...
... tion from being in my company , let me tell him that I learned a lesson from his active benevolence . I could , however , have wished to hear him laugh once before we parted , perhaps forever . He did not , to the best of my recol ...
الصفحة 77
... tion to meet my Captain , once more united to his brave wounded companions under that roof which covers a household of as noble hearts as ever throbbed with human sympa- thies . Back River , Bush River , Gunpowder Creek , lives there ...
... tion to meet my Captain , once more united to his brave wounded companions under that roof which covers a household of as noble hearts as ever throbbed with human sympa- thies . Back River , Bush River , Gunpowder Creek , lives there ...
الصفحة 78
Oliver Wendell Holmes. poet who has made it lovely to the imagina- tion as well as to the eye , and so identified his fame with the noble stream that it " rolls mingling with his fame forever " ? The prosaic traveller perhaps remembers ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. poet who has made it lovely to the imagina- tion as well as to the eye , and so identified his fame with the noble stream that it " rolls mingling with his fame forever " ? The prosaic traveller perhaps remembers ...
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الصفحة 226 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
الصفحة 377 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet.
الصفحة 175 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
الصفحة 461 - I should advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine were to perish, and only one of a thousand were to survive, and retain his liberty ! One such free man must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves ; and let him propagate his like, and transmit to them what he hath so nobly preserved.
الصفحة 413 - Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
الصفحة 267 - It was so nearly like visiting the battlefield to look over these views, that all the emotions excited by the actual sight of the stained and sordid scene, strewed with rags and wrecks, came back to us, and we buried them in the recesses of our cabinet as we would have buried the mutilated remains of the dead they too vividly represented.
الصفحة 266 - Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations.
الصفحة 154 - I look into the eyes of the caged tiger, and on the scaly train of the crocodile, stretched on the sands of the river that has mirrored a hundred dynasties. I stroll through Rhenish vineyards, I sit under Roman arches, I walk the streets of once buried cities, I look into the chasms of Alpine glaciers, and on the rush of wasteful cataracts. I pass, in a moment, from the banks of the Charles to the ford of the Jordan, and leave my outward frame in the arm-chair at my table, while in spirit I am looking...