An Eastern Tour at Home.D McKay, 1889 - 286 من الصفحات |
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... nearly two hundred years , and near its northern side is the " Martyrs ' Monument , " erected over the bones of the patriots who died in the prison - ships moored on the Brook- lyn shore during the Revolution . It is darkly hinted , how ...
... nearly two hundred years , and near its northern side is the " Martyrs ' Monument , " erected over the bones of the patriots who died in the prison - ships moored on the Brook- lyn shore during the Revolution . It is darkly hinted , how ...
الصفحة 19
... nearly three hun- dred feet to the top of its tower . To the eastward is the broad stretch of the Produce Exchange , with its huge square tower , part of the ground it stands upon having been the site of the house where Robert Fulton ...
... nearly three hun- dred feet to the top of its tower . To the eastward is the broad stretch of the Produce Exchange , with its huge square tower , part of the ground it stands upon having been the site of the house where Robert Fulton ...
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... nearly as many people as live on the island itself housed on the oppo- site shores or in adjacent towns , who daily pour into New York to engage in its business activity . The southern por- tion of Manhattan has a low surface , but to ...
... nearly as many people as live on the island itself housed on the oppo- site shores or in adjacent towns , who daily pour into New York to engage in its business activity . The southern por- tion of Manhattan has a low surface , but to ...
الصفحة 26
... nearly twenty times its capital , and in its reserves it often holds ten million dollars gold , besides being usually the strongest bank in New York in its excess of re- serves . It has never suspended specie payments , and its deposits ...
... nearly twenty times its capital , and in its reserves it often holds ten million dollars gold , besides being usually the strongest bank in New York in its excess of re- serves . It has never suspended specie payments , and its deposits ...
الصفحة 27
... nearly all of the mills in this country and for many abroad , and the annual money value of the trade they carry on is estimated at seven hundred and fifty to one thousand millions of dollars . Here throbs the pulse of the dry - goods ...
... nearly all of the mills in this country and for many abroad , and the annual money value of the trade they carry on is estimated at seven hundred and fifty to one thousand millions of dollars . Here throbs the pulse of the dry - goods ...
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الصفحة 122 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
الصفحة 129 - THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies...
الصفحة 129 - A h ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony...
الصفحة 114 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She...
الصفحة 170 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
الصفحة 149 - Albany ; — a project, which every one knows, — who knows the simplest rules in arithmetic, — to be impracticable but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the Moon.
الصفحة 254 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
الصفحة 238 - Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on for evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light...
الصفحة 169 - This man was, indeed, of a particular humour, and he would never join himself to any of our churches, giving this reason for it: "I came from England, because I did not like the lord-bishops; but I can't join with you, because I would not be under the lord-brethren.
الصفحة 246 - Maine ! But many a keel shall seaward turn, And many a sail outstand, When, tall and white, the Dead Ship looms Against the dusk of land.