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... better nor worse than his country- men ; free from passion , prejudice , bigotry ; his artistic eye saw men and things as they were . Thus , unhampered , he struck into that mine - Parisian life - and found gold . The amount of work ...
... better nor worse than his country- men ; free from passion , prejudice , bigotry ; his artistic eye saw men and things as they were . Thus , unhampered , he struck into that mine - Parisian life - and found gold . The amount of work ...
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... better'n most , Polly ; but then there's the wings and things ; they'd make - well , I must say for't , considerable difference , I do s'pose ! " she admitted hesitat- ingly . " Guess you'll get wings sometime , Aunt Polly . Wish I had ...
... better'n most , Polly ; but then there's the wings and things ; they'd make - well , I must say for't , considerable difference , I do s'pose ! " she admitted hesitat- ingly . " Guess you'll get wings sometime , Aunt Polly . Wish I had ...
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... better satisfied with their humdrum happiness than with the most poetic misery ; but , alas for their bi- ographer and the ruined volume ! WHEN persons decide on taking a journey , their first desire is to get certain questions answered ...
... better satisfied with their humdrum happiness than with the most poetic misery ; but , alas for their bi- ographer and the ruined volume ! WHEN persons decide on taking a journey , their first desire is to get certain questions answered ...
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... better than you do me . " " Perhaps we shall like one another a great deal better than we do now , " I said . " It's only a perhaps , " she responded . " No , we shall be new people then . Just think of my father being a little boy once ...
... better than you do me . " " Perhaps we shall like one another a great deal better than we do now , " I said . " It's only a perhaps , " she responded . " No , we shall be new people then . Just think of my father being a little boy once ...
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... better . Still more frankly , and with less discretion , I told him that the meetings seemed to be in the hands of a set of muffs , who knew very little and assumed to know everything . " The trouble with you fellows , " responded Mr ...
... better . Still more frankly , and with less discretion , I told him that the meetings seemed to be in the hands of a set of muffs , who knew very little and assumed to know everything . " The trouble with you fellows , " responded Mr ...
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Página 330 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 446 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 330 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God must needs come, but which having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and...
Página 330 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God .always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Página 458 - ... are anxious to be agreeable to him ; and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more- trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
Página 538 - Scud black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds Stand out the white lighthouses high. Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, One little sandpiper and I.
Página 328 - His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me, and I think He has, I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right, because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. I have told them that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and Christ and reason say the same, and they will find it so.
Página 58 - tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all die, Whene'er their Genius bids their souls depart, Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose; the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank And not reproacht me; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold.
Página 328 - I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me — and I think He has — I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God.
Página 329 - Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the National forces should not suffer, nor the cause they defend be imperiled, by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High. "At this time of public distress," adopting the words of Washington in 1776, " men may find enough to do...