Cyrus Northrop: A MemoirUniversity of Minnesota Press, 1925 - 634 pages |
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... seems to have been close to 1715. Joseph had seven children by Susanna Roberts . The Josephs continue , but their interest is no longer dominant for us , since the route to Cyrus follows other lines . It is Aaron Northrop , fourth child ...
... seems to have been close to 1715. Joseph had seven children by Susanna Roberts . The Josephs continue , but their interest is no longer dominant for us , since the route to Cyrus follows other lines . It is Aaron Northrop , fourth child ...
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... seems , no doctor or lawyer or clergyman , nor reached in any discoverable instance the college training which is ... seem never to have been tempted to exercise their shrewdness in its markets or their ingenuity in its fac- tories . It ...
... seems , no doctor or lawyer or clergyman , nor reached in any discoverable instance the college training which is ... seem never to have been tempted to exercise their shrewdness in its markets or their ingenuity in its fac- tories . It ...
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... seems to have been largely counter- vailed by the parsimony of that soil and the advent of new mouths to consume or disperse the slowly growing store . The upshot of the whole matter is that the Northrops of this line were emphatically ...
... seems to have been largely counter- vailed by the parsimony of that soil and the advent of new mouths to consume or disperse the slowly growing store . The upshot of the whole matter is that the Northrops of this line were emphatically ...
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... seems inexcusable to the thought- less because the word is short and common , is really excusable , or at least explicable , for that very reason , since it is precisely in words of that kind that erroneous impressions fix themselves ...
... seems inexcusable to the thought- less because the word is short and common , is really excusable , or at least explicable , for that very reason , since it is precisely in words of that kind that erroneous impressions fix themselves ...
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... seem to constitute a group . They differed no doubt in disposition and ability , but they impress us as a collection ... seems to have been less the young man's own volition than a family concert to which his boyish promise supplied , of ...
... seem to constitute a group . They differed no doubt in disposition and ability , but they impress us as a collection ... seems to have been less the young man's own volition than a family concert to which his boyish promise supplied , of ...
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Page 461 - Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 164 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 572 - President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: KNOW YE, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity...
Page 149 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Page 439 - Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Page 242 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 202 - HERE we stan' on the Constitution, by thunder ! It's a fact o* wich ther's bushils o' proofs ; Fer how could we trample on't so, I wonder, Eft worn't thet it's oilers under our hoofs ? " Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he ; " Human rights haint no more Right to come on this floor, No more'n the man in the moon,
Page 376 - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
Page 203 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Page 102 - It was the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, till I confess it began to be something of a bore to me.