An Eastern Tour at HomeD. McKay, 1889 - 286 من الصفحات |
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... century , at the beginning of which it had a population of only thirteen persons , living in a single house . Its great expansion has come from the overflow of New York during the development of the railway system in the past thirty ...
... century , at the beginning of which it had a population of only thirteen persons , living in a single house . Its great expansion has come from the overflow of New York during the development of the railway system in the past thirty ...
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... century the fashion- able people took their airing here . But they long ago left it , as the residential section moved far up town . It is a pleasant place and well kept , and into the spacious rotunda of its old Castle Clinton are ...
... century the fashion- able people took their airing here . But they long ago left it , as the residential section moved far up town . It is a pleasant place and well kept , and into the spacious rotunda of its old Castle Clinton are ...
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... century it was a mile out of town and surrounded by country - houses . The quaint little Stuy- vesant House then still stood perched on a high bank near the church , and , with its odd - looking overhanging upper story , was built of ...
... century it was a mile out of town and surrounded by country - houses . The quaint little Stuy- vesant House then still stood perched on a high bank near the church , and , with its odd - looking overhanging upper story , was built of ...
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... century was worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars . Then he began buying land and houses in New York , built many buildings , and was so shrewd in his real - estate investments that they often increased a hun- dredfold . He was ...
... century was worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars . Then he began buying land and houses in New York , built many buildings , and was so shrewd in his real - estate investments that they often increased a hun- dredfold . He was ...
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... century , and is now held by the grand- children . The old commodore , Cornelius Vanderbilt , who was born on Staten Island in 1794 , was an uneducated boat- man who traded in a meagre way around New York harbor , and at the age of ...
... century , and is now held by the grand- children . The old commodore , Cornelius Vanderbilt , who was born on Staten Island in 1794 , was an uneducated boat- man who traded in a meagre way around New York harbor , and at the age of ...
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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 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 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 243 - I remember the sea-fight far away, How it thundered o'er the tide ! And the dead captains, as they lay In their graves, o'erlooking the tranquil bay Where they in battle died. And the sound of that mournful song Goes through me with a thrill: 'A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
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 188 - The buildings are handsome, joyning one to the other as in London; with many large streets, most of them paved with pebble stone. In the high street towards the Common, there are fair buildings, some of stone ; and, at the east end of the [2] town, one amongst the rest, built by the shore by Mr.
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 140 - The voice of Massachusetts! Of her free sons and daughters, Deep calling unto deep aloud, the sound of many waters! Against the burden of that voice what tyrant power shall stand? No fetters in the Bay State!
الصفحة 122 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.