The Literary World, Volume 7S.R. Crocker, 1877 - Literature |
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... John Darby , 64 Genesis , Notes on , Robertson , German Home Life , 56 , 98 IMAGINARY Conversations , Landor , 64 , 152 , 170 Schücking's ( L. ) Fire and Flame , 64 , 152 , 170 134 165 17 Mathews's ( W. ) Words , Their Use and 114 Abuse ...
... John Darby , 64 Genesis , Notes on , Robertson , German Home Life , 56 , 98 IMAGINARY Conversations , Landor , 64 , 152 , 170 Schücking's ( L. ) Fire and Flame , 64 , 152 , 170 134 165 17 Mathews's ( W. ) Words , Their Use and 114 Abuse ...
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... John Oxenford , Warfare of Science , White , 10 Warner's ( C. D. ) In the Levant , 117 Watson's ( S. J. ) Legend of Roses , Watson's ( S. J. ) Ravlan , Way and Word , We Boys , Weavers and Weft , Braddon , 155 Weeks's ( R. K. ) Twenty ...
... John Oxenford , Warfare of Science , White , 10 Warner's ( C. D. ) In the Levant , 117 Watson's ( S. J. ) Legend of Roses , Watson's ( S. J. ) Ravlan , Way and Word , We Boys , Weavers and Weft , Braddon , 155 Weeks's ( R. K. ) Twenty ...
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... to escape , lays her plans with Sol unwilling ; John W. Forney . 12mo . pp . 412. Philadelphia : J. B. Julian , usurping Sol's part , performs its du- Lippincott & Co. 6 Jacob , • .6 MINOR BOOK NOTICES . is 4 [ JUNE , THE LITERARY WORLD .
... to escape , lays her plans with Sol unwilling ; John W. Forney . 12mo . pp . 412. Philadelphia : J. B. Julian , usurping Sol's part , performs its du- Lippincott & Co. 6 Jacob , • .6 MINOR BOOK NOTICES . is 4 [ JUNE , THE LITERARY WORLD .
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... John Bright and his brother journalist ; but as a reasoner he blunders . the latter resembling in person Col. " You have an explanation , " he says , " of the Thomas A. Scott , the famous railroad - man . hostility at Liverpool to the ...
... John Bright and his brother journalist ; but as a reasoner he blunders . the latter resembling in person Col. " You have an explanation , " he says , " of the Thomas A. Scott , the famous railroad - man . hostility at Liverpool to the ...
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... John Smith respond ? " - The Literary World readily interposes its “ Adel " returns to the charge : " The feeble authority to prevent the desuetude of Literary World does not yet seem to under- that good word answer . Response cannot ...
... John Smith respond ? " - The Literary World readily interposes its “ Adel " returns to the charge : " The feeble authority to prevent the desuetude of Literary World does not yet seem to under- that good word answer . Response cannot ...
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Page 149 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 149 - 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.
Page 149 - If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Page 136 - For this is the Great Story of the North, which should be to all 'our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been — a story too — then should it be to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us.
Page 149 - MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again.
Page 149 - I have lived more than a quarter of a century, here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington.
Page 42 - ... There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer showers To golden grain or mellow fruit Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
Page 55 - That it should come to this: But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 135 - It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as one gazed around; and the pure mountain air was most refreshing. All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.
Page 21 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.