Library of the World's Best Literature: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, 1897 - Anthologies |
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Page 15092
... seemed to swoon away in the embrace of a background of darkness ; the flame , flaring up from time to time , cast swift flashes of light beyond the boundary of this circle ; a fine tongue of light licked the dry twigs and died away at ...
... seemed to swoon away in the embrace of a background of darkness ; the flame , flaring up from time to time , cast swift flashes of light beyond the boundary of this circle ; a fine tongue of light licked the dry twigs and died away at ...
Page 15093
... seemed rigid ; his contracted brow never relaxed ; he seemed continually blinking from the firelight . His flaxen - almost white -hair hung out in thin wisps under his low felt hat , which he kept pulling down with both hands over his ...
... seemed rigid ; his contracted brow never relaxed ; he seemed continually blinking from the firelight . His flaxen - almost white -hair hung out in thin wisps under his low felt hat , which he kept pulling down with both hands over his ...
Page 15094
... seemed to be bending under him , they creaked so ; then he crossed over , above our heads : all of a sudden the water began to drip and drip over the wheel ; the wheel rattled and rattled and again began to turn , though the sluices of ...
... seemed to be bending under him , they creaked so ; then he crossed over , above our heads : all of a sudden the water began to drip and drip over the wheel ; the wheel rattled and rattled and again began to turn , though the sluices of ...
Page 15095
... seemed as if some one came to the door , and suddenly coughed and choked like a sheep , but so loudly ! We all fell down in a heap and huddled against one another . Just weren't we in a fright that night ! " " I say ! " murmured Pavel ...
... seemed as if some one came to the door , and suddenly coughed and choked like a sheep , but so loudly ! We all fell down in a heap and huddled against one another . Just weren't we in a fright that night ! " " I say ! " murmured Pavel ...
Page 15099
... seemed as if some dog kept whining and whining like this , somewhere . Suddenly she looks up : a boy comes along the road with only a shirt on . She looked at him . It was Ivashka Fedosyev . " " He who died in the spring ? " put in ...
... seemed as if some dog kept whining and whining like this , somewhere . Suddenly she looks up : a boy comes along the road with only a shirt on . She looked at him . It was Ivashka Fedosyev . " " He who died in the spring ? " put in ...
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Page 15677 - Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Page 15671 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
Page 15674 - So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Page 15669 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 15241 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 15674 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican Government.
Page 15671 - This, within certain limits, is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
Page 15666 - The North in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South, in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand.
Page 15665 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me on an occasion like the present to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Page 15664 - The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped, that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn.