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... ment between the Varuna and the Governor Moore and Stonewall Jackson- Fight between the Iroquois and Con- federate vessels - Commander Charles S. Boggs - Section of Fort St. Philip - Lieut . Thomas B. Huger - Hartford attacked by a fire ...
... ment between the Varuna and the Governor Moore and Stonewall Jackson- Fight between the Iroquois and Con- federate vessels - Commander Charles S. Boggs - Section of Fort St. Philip - Lieut . Thomas B. Huger - Hartford attacked by a fire ...
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... ment at the frontispiece , which gathers the ex- ternal meaning of the poem into a very intelligi- ble , frank form , to observe the spirit in which Mr. Vedder has treated the subject , since it affords one key to his involution of the ...
... ment at the frontispiece , which gathers the ex- ternal meaning of the poem into a very intelligi- ble , frank form , to observe the spirit in which Mr. Vedder has treated the subject , since it affords one key to his involution of the ...
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... ment , the acrobats seem to be on the best of terms with themselves and with the audience , whom they amuse at intervals by playing tricks on the clown , who is as necessary an adjunct of such a performance with the Chinese , apparently ...
... ment , the acrobats seem to be on the best of terms with themselves and with the audience , whom they amuse at intervals by playing tricks on the clown , who is as necessary an adjunct of such a performance with the Chinese , apparently ...
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... ment . He accordingly was carried through the streets of San Francisco with great pomp and placed upon the receiving altar . * The Chinese supernumerary receives his name of " Great. meaning of a Chinese play , calls for more than an ...
... ment . He accordingly was carried through the streets of San Francisco with great pomp and placed upon the receiving altar . * The Chinese supernumerary receives his name of " Great. meaning of a Chinese play , calls for more than an ...
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... ment . Return checks are given at the door to all except the white barbarians , who pay their fifty cents once for all ; and on leaving the Chinese theater any evening a large number of poor devils who cannot afford to pay the admission ...
... ment . Return checks are given at the door to all except the white barbarians , who pay their fifty cents once for all ; and on leaving the Chinese theater any evening a large number of poor devils who cannot afford to pay the admission ...
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Página 169 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain and contemplate your glory.
Página 505 - And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged about the board. He poured the fiery Hollands in, — the man that never feared, — He took a long and solemn draught, and wiped his yellow beard ; And one by one the musketeers — the men that fought and prayed — All drank as 'twere their mother's milk, and not a man afraid.
Página 382 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Página 224 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture ' of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 7 - Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Página 278 - It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. I ain't a-going to tell all that happened — it would make me sick again if I was to do that. I wished I hadn't ever come ashore that night to see such things. I ain't ever going to get shut of them — lots of times I dream about them.
Página 74 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 268 - A little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep.
Página 551 - ... others, and that corner was hanging over. People lived in them yet, but it was dangersome, because sometimes a strip of land as wide as a house caves in at a time. Sometimes a belt of land a quarter of a mile deep will start in and cave along and cave along till it all caves into the river in one summer. Such a town as that has to be always moving back, and back, and back, because the river's always gnawing at it.
Página 7 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.